From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 19:17:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737DB37B71A; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:17:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA05076; Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:06:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:06:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "David O'Brien" Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Archive pruning In-Reply-To: <20000424185151.A36672@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 08:15:45PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > I want to bring up a suggestion. I just want a little bit of argument on > > it ... and if you're violently opposed, just say so, that's fine. > > I'm "violently opposed". :-) > > > While folks do sometimes go hunting for hugely old materials in the > > tree, > > I've often traced files back to the begining of FreeBSD time (and then > continued in the CSRG SCCS tree). I've done this numerious times, > especially the contributed sources like GCC and GNU grep. > > > Do we really need 5 year old history? > > Yes. OK. Thanks, I wanted some opinions, and I guess I have enough to satisfy me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message