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Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 21:20:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
cc: Francisco Reyes <reyesf@super.zippo.com>,
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Subject: Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?
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rather than use CVS, set up thewebserver and use a browser and  the
cvsweb tool to browse the sources..


On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Chuck Robey wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering how is the selection made of what goes into the
> > CDrom?
> > Is the CVS repository used by most users or just a few?
> > 
> > Personally I find that it would have been more useful to have the
> > sources for all the programs somewhere (ie a second live file system
> > CD) in an untar format. Alternatively a list of where the sources are
> > in the first CD and a small script to get a program out would be just
> > as good. For example recently I wanted to look at the source code for
> > "renice". Getting the entire usr.bin took too much space.
> > 
> 
> You know that the source for renice (and all the other parts of FreeBSD)
> are inside that CVS archive?  cvs is really complicated to learn, but
> pretty well worth it.
> 
> > 
> > 
> 
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