On 2 January 2013 16:05, Derek Kulinski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Eitan Adler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>On 2 January 2013 06:26, Chris Rees <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> To clarify, no-one wants to remove CVS completely, the suggestion was
>>to
>>> move it out of the base system.
>>
>>As the developer responsible for this:
>>
>>CVS will be removed from base.  It already exists as a port in
>>devel/cvs
>
> Will svn be added to the base? Not long ago I run into an issue when trying 
> to downgrade my system to 9.0.
>
> After I noticed how majority of ports were broken due to changes in the libc 
> I decided to back out by fetching 9.1 release just to learn that svn does not 
> work as well. There were a lot of dependencies I decided to use portupgrade 
> which required me to recompile ruby. After that it was a lot of compiling 
> (for example Apache because apr was broken). Having svn in the base would 
> save tons of time in my situation.

It certainly wouldn't, it would mean that instead of only building
when you installed the port, it would build with every buildworld :)

http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/user/des/svnsup/

needs fixing if you're feeling brave.  It won't be easy, however.

Chris
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