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Date:      Thu, 3 Nov 2016 10:17:23 +0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        Eivind Nicolay Evensen <eivinde@terraplane.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] remove GNU rcs from FreeBSD 12
Message-ID:  <b1807e56-2be5-28fa-c570-d58a9962e06d@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20161025182730.GA60030@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett>
References:  <20160911133804.a7j7p3x2viqzcpec@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20161025182730.GA60030@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett>

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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.
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