[RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12

[Ronald Klop]

On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 03:17:23 +0100, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org>  
wrote:

> On 26/10/2016 2:27 AM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed  
>>> attempt
>>> before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from  
>>> FreeBSD
>>> 12.
>
> why should we remove it?
> What will replace it?  it's an integral part of many people's systems.

Firefox/perl/java is also an integral part of many people's system. But it  
is not in base.

> Is there a non gnu RCS with the same features?

There is the exact same version in pkg/ports.

Ronald.


>
>> Whatever the outcome may be and for whatever my opinion is worth, I hope
>> rcs will stay in base. I don't care about the licensing. I don't
>> care if a switch to openrcs happens either, as long as it works.
>>
>> For years, one has been able to rely upon this operating system having
>> certain pieces of software available. Losing that makes it a worse  
>> choice
>> than before.
>>
>> I've already had to readd cvs to my freebsd tree since that was removed,
>> but if it keeps getting worse and worse and there's soon a
>> freebsd kernel and some random bits of freebsd userland available
>> through ports, there's not much reason to keep using it as an operating
>> system, because then it is not an operating system anymore, rather an
>> emulation of another "system" built around that concept.
>>
>>
>>
>> Eivind N. E.
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