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From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:53:58PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> 
> >I'm extremely happy with having tcsh instead of csh in the base system. As
> >others have said, if someone has an operational requirement for plain old
> >csh, they are free to install the port and make the appropriate links.
> 
> As an interested (and innocent) bystander, I'm not quite grasping why it's 
> an either/or proposition.  Why not just break the link, grab net/open's 
> /bin/csh and commit it?

Because two copies of csh are two too many. If we were to import another
shell into the base system, it would not be csh.


Tim