svn commit: r359168 - head

[Enji Cooper]

> On Mar 24, 2020, at 3:57 PM, Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, at 3:45 PM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 04:02:46PM +0000, Ed Maste wrote:
>> E> Author: emaste
>> E> Date: Fri Mar 20 16:02:45 2020
>> E> New Revision: 359168
>> E> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/359168
>> E> 
>> E> Log:
>> E>   remove ancient pre-2000 ObsoleteFiles.inc entries
>> E>   
>> E>   We support 10.3 as the minimum version to install from, which was
>> E>   released in the mid-2010s.  There's a lot of ancient ObsoleteFiles.inc
>> E>   history that serves no purpose today; start by removing entries from
>> E>   1999 and earlier.
>> 
>> I understand that rationale is to speedup 'make delete-old' times, and
>> trimming the default file definitely makes sense. However, what about
>> keeping the full ObsoleteFiles.inc version, at least for documenting
>> purposes?
>> 
> 
> This is what SCM history is for, IMHO.  The historical entries serve little
> purpose outside of that.

Moreover, splitting them up into separate files will make merges more difficult than they need to be/already are.
Cheers,
-Enji