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Date:      Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:17:36 +0200
From:      Olli Hauer <ohauer@FreeBSD.org>
To:        arch@freebsd.org
Cc:        Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net>
Subject:   Re: Removing CVS from HEAD
Message-ID:  <504BE020.1070300@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <504BD9B5.20001@shatow.net>
References:  <CAF6rxgnZGjzm230sZXVXxmE7wPowF_BZqbwRjdvz8oV-03gS=A@mail.gmail.com> <20120908234659.GA10489@server.rulingia.com> <504BD9B5.20001@shatow.net>

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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 :(

--
Regards,
olli



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