Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:24:46 +0400 From: Roman Kurakin <rik@inse.ru> To: Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CVS removal from the base Message-ID: <4ED8A76E.2040401@inse.ru> In-Reply-To: <CADe0-4kEJsj5pe6h4ZVPGg-hFEjE7oC4Ya8VO7sdW9W3WZiajg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADe0-4kEJsj5pe6h4ZVPGg-hFEjE7oC4Ya8VO7sdW9W3WZiajg@mail.gmail.com>
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Max Khon wrote: > Hello! > > I know that it is too early to speak about this, but I would like the > dust in the mailing lists to settle down before real actions can be > taken. > > As soon as ports/ (and doc/) are moved to SVN I do not see any > compelling reasons for keeping CVS in the base system. > Those who still use it for development can install ports/devel/opencvs > (like all the src/ developers do for ports/devel/subversion/). > > In my opinion it is just another piece of bitrot that resides in the > base system for no real reasons. > By the way, there is one other use case of cvs. Personally I use cvs instead of cvsup to checkout whatever version I need to compile. It is very useful to have such ability out of the box without any extra ports. rik > Max > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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