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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