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Again, not the reason for archives.
... Do you think archives are just when you store old files on magnetic tape?
For fucks sake... That's what YOU think! And that's the problem! TAR is a shit archive format. Deal with it.
LMAO that makes so much sense. No wonder you got all weird when I brought up installers. You're picturing a file in a folder that contains something you want
There's a lot of kinds of archives.
Tarballs don't suck, they're just not for you. You can go back to your blissful ignorance of how often you've used a tarball seamlessly without realizing it happened, because someone else understood the upside of the tech