Removing CVS from HEAD

Tim Kientzle tim at kientzle.com
Sun Sep 9 00:21:43 UTC 2012


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?

Tim



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