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Date:      Sun, 30 Nov 1997 16:14:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To:        Francisco Reyes <reyesf@super.zippo.com>
Cc:        "hackers@freebsd.org" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How is selection made of what goes into CDrom?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971130161313.376O-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <199711302019.MAA05400@super.zippo.com>

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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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