Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Sam James <sam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on conditional patching
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 03:43:52
Message-Id: CC3492F3-20E9-4674-B1D7-E8F76A8D8353@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy on conditional patching by Sam James
1 > On 29 Mar 2022, at 04:43, Sam James <sam@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 >
5 >> On 28 Mar 2022, at 12:05, Thomas Bracht Laumann Jespersen <t@×××××××.xyz> wrote:
6 >>
7 >> Hi!
8 >>
9 >> I've been working on a new section in the devmanual regarding conditional
10 >> patching. In a PR [0] Sam suggested adding a section to clarify that conditional
11 >> patching should be avoided, because it can quickly become a maintenance and
12 >> testing burden.
13 >>
14
15 ... and just to be clear, I'm not suggesting we ban it. Just discourage it so that
16 people are aware it should be avoided where possible.
17
18 Best,
19 sam

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