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Date:      Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:12:55 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-current-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
Subject:   Re: CVS removal from the base
Message-ID:  <441usj6oi0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAFHbX1%2BXj6DoT6uxzo-q4g=2gVKx7_uR5NQwYpAE99EzVFrT8A@mail.gmail.com> (Tom Evans's message of "Mon, 5 Dec 2011 12:49:04 %2B0000")
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Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> writes:

> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> wrote:
>> CVS != csup.
>>
>> I wonder how many people will express their sentiments about CVS when
>> they really mean cvsup/csup.
>
> I wasn't going to jump onto this bikeshed, as CVS will not be going
> anywhere any time soon, I am sure.
>
> I use cvs, rather than csup. I use cvsup to fetch CVS archives to
> /home/ncvs, and check out ports from there, as described in
> development(7).
>
> If ports were no longer delivered via CVS, you may have had a point
> about removing CVS from base - but they are not.

Max Khon was the one who posted the original message in the thread. 
That message explicitly stated that moving ports and doc away from CVS
was a prerequisite for removing CVS from base. As far as I've noticed,
no one has challenged that.

I'm trying to think of a way to fit the previous paragraph into the 
bikeshed metaphor, but I'm coming up with nothing. 




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