>>>>> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, C. Bergström wrote:

> Here's another idea and I don't know why I didn't think of it
> sooner.. Instead of any system change to the patch ebuild.. Inside
> the eutils.eclass do a quick check for gpatch and if it exists use
> that vs patch.

Why not simply alias patch=gpatch in profile.bashrc?
See the FreeBSD profile for an example.

Ulrich