e.g. flac for lossless audio because…

    • But it’s not a tarxz, it’s an xz containing a tar, and you perform operations from right to left until you arrive back at the original files with whatever extensions they use.

      If I compress an exe into a zip, would you expect that to be an exezip? No, you expect it to be file.exe.zip, informing you(and your system) that this file should first be unzipped, and then should be executed.

    • Gamma
      link
      fedilink
      English
      12 years ago

      I get your point. Since a .tar.zst file can be handled natively by tar, using .tzst instead does make sense.