Why does --xattrs imply --perms?

[Wayne Davison]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 05:59:35PM -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> Why does --xattrs imply --perms (according to the man page)?

Yeah, there isn't really a good reason for that.  It was probably just a
left-over from back when the patch was created (back when the original
author based the xattr patch on the ACL patch).  I've gotten rid of that
implication.

..wayne..