Removing CVS from HEAD
Olli Hauer
ohauer at FreeBSD.org
Sun Sep 9 00:37:30 UTC 2012
On 2012-09-09 02:21, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Olli Hauer wrote:
>> On 2012-09-09 01:50, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>>> On 9/8/2012 6:46 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>>>> As I said before: CVS (and RCS) are both GPL-licensed tools that (as
>>>> of 10.x) no longer serve any purpose in the base system. ... They are
>>>> [therefore] not needed in the FreeBSD base.
>>>
>>> Yes please, deprecate and remove both.
>>>
>>
>> CVS and RCS is really handy if you have to work on isolated
>> machines and cannot install a modern VCS, there it is always
>> a better fall-back then copy1/2/3 ...
>>
>> If it has to go I have to use the fall-back method in future :(
>
> Are you saying that you are in an environment where
> you cannot install the devel/cvs package or port?
>
Yep, I support some machines which are running a stock
FreeBSD without any port installed ...
If I have to work on this machines RCS is a really handy tool.
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