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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:13:19 +0200
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Cc: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: Removing CVS from HEAD
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"Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> writes:
> Removing CVS from src/ will be easily recoverable for commited FreeBSD
> users, but will degrade FreeBSD for some visitors from other Unixes &
> ex BSD people tentatively returning.

Which other Unices provide CVS out of the box?

> Rather than lose a lot of time on docs, mail lists etc, it's easy to
> decide: "Probably much else changed or missing too, I'll lose too much
> time to revert it to a working Unix environment. Try next OS."

Yes, because I'm sure the absence of a program they haven't used in five
years, if ever, and will probably never need is the largest hurdle to
overcome for new or returning FreeBSD users.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no