Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] eapply: Drop -s option for patch.

[Michał Górny]

On Fri, 2019-12-13 at 17:15 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 4:42 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-12-13 at 16:37 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 3:36 PM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> > > > Just like 'many of the proposals lately', developers are going to be
> > > > the ones disabling it (because they don't care), and users will be the
> > > > ones enabling it (because they do care), just to learn that developers
> > > > don't care and go complaining to the mailing lists that users dare
> > > > report issues they don't care about.
> > >
> > > I care if the patch is actually broken, which the warning doesn't
> > > really tell me. It's just not a very reliable indicator, and will
> > > produce false-positives frequently.
> > >
> >
> > You can also take less context into the patch and use -F0.  Then you'll
> > have the same effect, no warnings to bother you and no pretending that
> > the patch applies when it doesn't.
>
> That really doesn't help me. My point is that I don't want to touch
> the patch unless it is actually necessary to do so.
>

Then make patches with -U0.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny