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. > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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