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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2024
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The problem is, tar isn't a packing program, it's a tape archive program that's been repurposed for general files-to-file archival with optional compression plugins
At this point, if it were written today, it probably would behave as you suggest, but changing it now would break too many things that use it
Then it would've been time to deprecate it for this purpose, and use something sensible instead, say about 13 years ago.
All the old stuff can then keep using tar, but the nicer option can become the standard for user-friendly file extraction.