Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 19:22:02 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> To: Olli Hauer <ohauer@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Subject: Re: Removing CVS from HEAD Message-ID: <504BE12A.50907@shatow.net> In-Reply-To: <504BE020.1070300@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAF6rxgnZGjzm230sZXVXxmE7wPowF_BZqbwRjdvz8oV-03gS=A@mail.gmail.com> <20120908234659.GA10489@server.rulingia.com> <504BD9B5.20001@shatow.net> <504BE020.1070300@FreeBSD.org>
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On 9/8/2012 7:17 PM, Olli Hauer wrote: > On 2012-09-09 01:50, Bryan Drewery wrote: >> On 9/8/2012 6:46 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: >>> As I said before: CVS (and RCS) are both GPL-licensed tools that (as >>> of 10.x) no longer serve any purpose in the base system. ... They are >>> [therefore] not needed in the FreeBSD base. >> >> Yes please, deprecate and remove both. >> > > CVS and RCS is really handy if you have to work on isolated > machines and cannot install a modern VCS, there it is always > a better fall-back then copy1/2/3 ... > > If it has to go I have to use the fall-back method in future :( > I agree fully they can be handy, and other handy tools could be present. But this is as straight forward as: # portsnap fetch extract # make -C /usr/ports/devel/my_vcs_tool install clean Or now even (considering CURRENT): # pkg install devel/my_vcs_tool Given how easy it is to easy install (the latest) version of some handy tool like this, it's odd we have some, but not other, tools in base. -- Regards, Bryan Drewery bdrewery@freenode/EFNet
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