[netizen-936824]

I always thought tarball was a rather casual term rather than technical. Maybe something like 'tar archive' is more appropriate for technical documentation?

Although I do thoroughly enjoy it when information changes or gets lost in translation. It can be hilarious, like this situation.

[cafard]

My understanding was that "tar" originated as an abbreviation of "tape archive", so you'd be getting into recursive territory, and they'd never stand for that in the GNU world, would they?