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Originally Posted by Oko
Hiroki Sato is a full professor at Tokyo University, one of five members of the FreeBSD core, occasional contributer to IPFW, and the guy who is porting TeXLive to FreeBSD since 2001. He prevented at least two different people that I know of committing full working TeXLive to FreeBSD ports tree because it hearts his ego to know that a kid from France and a kid from a Serbia did something in 6 months that he could not do in ten years.
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I was also in contact regarding TexLive a couple of years ago when I still did some FreeBSD port work (And didn't have a job, so I had plenty of time). IIRC the answer I got was "it's almost done and at this moment I don't need any help. Maybe later. Thanks!"
As for tar, libarchive(3) tells me:
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HISTORY
The libarchive library first appeared in FreeBSD 5.3.
libarchive (and thus tar) can also process zip files, iso files, etc.