Re: [Heads Up] RCS removed from base

On 10/07/13 20:28, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Julian Elischer wrote this message on Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:01 +0800:
>> not a big thing but I believe that a lot of poeple use ci/co on /etc
>> becasue it is "just there"
>
> +1
>
Folks, this is just plain a major violation of the Principle of Least
Amazement.  RCS is ideal for keeping track of my configuration files
in /etc.  What do we gain by removing it?  Roughly 640 kilobytes of
executable code and 60 kilobytes of compressed man pages.  Had the
community that hangs our on this mailing list heard about this when it
could still have been described as a proposal, as opposed to a fait
accompli, I would have described it as the epitome of a Half Baked
Idea.                                                      -- George