Re: CVS removal from the base

Doug Barton wrote:
[...]
The fact that we have so many people who are radically change-averse, no
matter how rational the change; is a bug, not a feature.

This particular bug is complicated dramatically by the fact that the
majority view seems to lean heavily towards "If I use it, it must be the
default and/or in the base" rather than seeing ports as part of the
overall operating SYSTEM.
You are right in general, except one small factor. We are talking about bootstrap.
CVS is used by many as the one of the ways to get the sources to the freshly
installed system to recompile to the last available source. It will become inconvenient
to do it through the process of installing some ports for that. Especially if corresponding
ports would require some other ports as dependences.

rik

Doug


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