Removing GENERIC.local from the repository

[Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello,

I see that config(5) describes a 'cinclude' statement to include a  
file if it exists, otherwise ignoring it.  This was added in 1999.   
May I assume that this is the reason why the GENERIC.local files  
(i386's one being added n 1996) are stored in the repository?  Is it  
there any other reason to keep them there?

What I'd like to do is change all kernels that include a  
GENERIC.local to use cinclude instead, and then drop GENERIC.local  
from the CVS.  The reason for this is to avoid having local  
modifications to files that are strictly designed to modified locally  
and never committed.  Otherwise, having stuff added to these  
generates noise during, e.g. 'cvs update', and you know that an  
innocent 'cvs commit' in the incorrect directory will end up  
committing local stuff to the tree that will have to be reverted  
later on.

Objections?

Thanks.