svn commit: r359168 - head

[Scott Long]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, at 3:45 PM, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 04:02:46PM +0000, Ed Maste wrote:
> E> Author: emaste
> E> Date: Fri Mar 20 16:02:45 2020
> E> New Revision: 359168
> E> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/359168
> E> 
> E> Log:
> E>   remove ancient pre-2000 ObsoleteFiles.inc entries
> E>   
> E>   We support 10.3 as the minimum version to install from, which was
> E>   released in the mid-2010s.  There's a lot of ancient ObsoleteFiles.inc
> E>   history that serves no purpose today; start by removing entries from
> E>   1999 and earlier.
> 
> I understand that rationale is to speedup 'make delete-old' times, and
> trimming the default file definitely makes sense. However, what about
> keeping the full ObsoleteFiles.inc version, at least for documenting
> purposes?
> 

This is what SCM history is for, IMHO.  The historical entries serve little
purpose outside of that.

Scott