```
$ tar xf ../quarto-0.2.291-linux-amd64.tar 
$ ls
bin  COPYING.md  COPYRIGHT  share
```

It is good practice for an archive to start with a folder, otherwise people may run into errors like this one:

```
$ tar xf quarto-0.2.291-linux-amd64.tar
tar: .: Cannot utime: Operation not permitted
tar: .: Cannot change mode to rwxr-xr-t: Operation not permitted
```

And, if they do it in their home directory, they may pollute that directory instead of having the files extracted into a subfolder.
2021-11-19T20:05:03Z
stefanv
closed
Release archive does not start with a directory
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/192