[gentoo-user] scope of user patches via epatch

[Ian Zimmerman]

Is there any way to make the patches under /etc/portage/patches
applicable to more than a single exact version of each package?  Right
now, every time I emerge -u I have to check if I have patches for a
package on the updated list, and if so make a new subdirectory for the
new version and copy or link the patches there [1].  This is a chore I
could live without.  So my question is if there's any wildcard mechanism
to match multiple versions.

[1] Some fail to apply of course but that's ok, still less work to see
which ones fail than to try checking separately each patch if it applies
or not.

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