patch(1) depends on RCS - should it?
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Oct 7 20:46:48 UTC 2013
In message <CAF6rxgni6kw6qtLMwWQdc2SuQp+Wa5-pTQwgSbTPa1-x_vznEA at mail.gmail.com>
, Eitan Adler writes:
>patch(1) explicitly tries to use RCS (and SCCS) in certain cases. Are
>we okay with a base system utility that behaves differently depending
>on whether a port is installed? Should the relevant code be removed
>from patch(1)?
>
>See head/usr.bin/patch/inp.c lines 166 to 240 for details.
Yes, that code should be removed.
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