Subject: Re: Removing cvs from basesrc.
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/12/2000 00:38:35
> If we're going to remote ANYTHING from basesrc, it probably ought to be
> RCS -- CVS no longer requires it, and most people use CVS for version
> controlling these days.

It's necessary to have /usr/bin/ident in the tree, for useful bug-reporting
and extraction of tags from binaries.

I assert this is a strong argument against removing RCS, though of course
you could seperate ident from the rest of RCS.

--jhawk

   (I agree with some of the other arguments against removing RCS, but
    I want to mention this one.)