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Authored by des on Feb 21 2026, 11:26 PM.
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Summary

Now that BSD diff3 is fully functional, there is no more reason to keep
GNU diff around. Retire it and the build option that controlled it.

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rG FreeBSD src repository
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Build 68077: arc lint + arc unit