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> You can too; it just checks out to a different place.  If the build
> environment is sufficiently modular, that won't matter.  It probably
> isn't, though.

I wouldn't consider this a 'real checkout' of a previous version.  If
I want a previous version, I want it exactly - no changes, to be able
to compare with others etc.  Changing directory layout is different.

> CVS needs repository "symlinks".

No, CVS needs understanding of directories and that files can move.
There has been discussion of adding this at cvs-info list, but I don't
think anything has come of it so far.

In fact, CVS probably need a major change of the database interface,
to allow use of different databases for different purposes - I'd be
willing to sacrifice disk space for speed, but I'm not certain
everybody else would.

Eivind.