From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Thu Nov 3 02:17:41 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D74C29C5A for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 02:17:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C909B1C5E for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 02:17:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id AD20CC29C59; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 02:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC9F2C29C58 for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 02:17:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E11C51C56; Thu, 3 Nov 2016 02:17:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from Julian-MBP3.local (ppp121-45-232-92.lns20.per1.internode.on.net [121.45.232.92]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id uA32HS3O056497 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 2 Nov 2016 19:17:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Subject: Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12 To: Eivind Nicolay Evensen , Baptiste Daroussin References: <20160911133804.a7j7p3x2viqzcpec@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20161025182730.GA60030@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> Cc: current@freebsd.org From: Julian Elischer Message-ID: Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 10:17:23 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161025182730.GA60030@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 02:17:41 -0000 On 26/10/2016 2:27 AM, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:38:04PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: >> hi, >> >> For long we are planning to remove GNU rcs from base, after a failed attempt >> before FreeBSD 10.0. Let see where we are to be able to remove it from FreeBSD >> 12. why should we remove it? What will replace it? it's an integral part of many people's systems. Is there a non gnu RCS with the same features? > Whatever the outcome may be and for whatever my opinion is worth, I hope > rcs will stay in base. I don't care about the licensing. I don't > care if a switch to openrcs happens either, as long as it works. > > For years, one has been able to rely upon this operating system having > certain pieces of software available. Losing that makes it a worse choice > than before. > > I've already had to readd cvs to my freebsd tree since that was removed, > but if it keeps getting worse and worse and there's soon a > freebsd kernel and some random bits of freebsd userland available > through ports, there's not much reason to keep using it as an operating > system, because then it is not an operating system anymore, rather an > emulation of another "system" built around that concept. > > > > Eivind N. E. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >