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Date:      Wed, 2 Jan 2013 11:26:06 +0000
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        Thomas Mueller <mueller23@insightbb.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Does / Is anyone maintaining CVS for FreeBSD?
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On 2 Jan 2013 11:08, "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> wrote:
>
> > There has been some discussion about removing CVS from the base system
> > now it is no longer used.  No concensus was reached, so it's not going
> > away immediately (and would not be removed from 9.x or earlier branches
> > in any case).
>
> > CVS is (and will remain) available in ports (devel/cvs).
>
> > --
> > Peter Jeremy
>
> Now CVS may be no longer used for FreeBSD servers, but NetBSD servers
still use it for system source and pkgsrc.
>
> I like to keep up with NetBSD 6-STABLE and HEAD, maybe a final try for
NetBSD 5.2, and that includes pkgsrc.
>
> If somebody could persuade NetBSD to switch to svn, I would surely not
quarrel.

To clarify, no-one wants to remove CVS completely, the suggestion was to
move it out of the base system.

Chris



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