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From: rob holland <robh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [FEATURE-REQUEST][PORTAGE] Apply custom patches
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 17:41:29
Message-Id: 167050000.1057686001@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [FEATURE-REQUEST][PORTAGE] Apply custom patches by "C. Brewer"
1 --On Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:29:53 -0700 "C. Brewer"
2 <cbrewer@×××××××××××××.net> wrote:
3
4 > For that kind of effort, it would be far easier to edit the ebuild
5 > directly. I think you'd be surprised that on a ~x86 box the number of
6 > patches that need to be added, or better yet, taken out as they are not
7 > needed or break the package under certain circumstances, not to mention
8 > the amount of patches that are included with some ebuilds as a sweeping
9 > general purpose one-size fits all patching.
10
11 How would MY_PATCHES allow you to not apply a patch?
12
13 MY_PATCHES="-notthisone.patch"?
14
15 --
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17 robh@g.o / robh:irc.freenode.net
18 http://dev.gentoo.org/~robh/robh@××××××××××.asc

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [FEATURE-REQUEST][PORTAGE] Apply custom patches Norberto BENSA <nbensa@×××.net>