[Heads Up] RCS removed from base

Julian Elischer julian at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 8 01:49:38 UTC 2013


On 10/8/13 9:33 AM, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 08:41:38PM -0400, George Mitchell wrote:
>> On 10/07/13 20:28, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>>> Julian Elischer wrote this message on Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:01 +0800:
>>>> not a big thing but I believe that a lot of poeple use ci/co on /etc
>>>> becasue it is "just there"
>>> +1
>>>
>> Folks, this is just plain a major violation of the Principle of Least
>> Amazement.  RCS is ideal for keeping track of my configuration files
>> in /etc.  What do we gain by removing it?
> Less GPL code in FreeBSD?
not a problem unless you plan in shipping a changed version of it on 
your product??



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