Will you put these externals in CVS? Or are your worried about conflicts and/or stability?
I'd like to but last time I tried I didn't seem to have write permission. Is the cvs globally writeable by every developer
not globally. i think the only restricticted branches are HEAD/MAIN. and maybe a couple of others which are auto-synched from remote repositories
if you have an :ext acct and can't create a dir in externals/, its a bug...