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Date:      Wed, 22 May 1996 20:00:34 +0000
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: src/gnu 
Message-ID:  <779.832795234@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 May 1996 20:38:45 %2B0100." <11188.832793925@palmer.demon.co.uk> 

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> Comments? What does our current cvs meister thing?
> 
> (The reason behind the move is the fact that the import wasn't done
>  properly in the first place, and if I remember, the tools were just
>  brought over wholesale from the 1.x source tree rather than being
>  seperately imported so that they could be mainained).

Isn't the fundamental problem that nobody maintains them, rather than
how they're maintained ?

Apart from that, wouldn't it make more sense to use the "ports" paradigm
on them instead of checking in all the files ?  In theory we should be
running pretty much footool-9.3.tar.gz with a few patches, so why not
speed up our CVS-tree by actually not checking in the thousands of files
but rather access them by reference via the tar file ?

That would also make it easier to show that we do the "GPL" thing...

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