Re: pkgquilt
nia <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:00:42 +0000
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 10:04:33PM +0000, David Holland wrote: > The idea would be that you can apply one patch at a time while doing > maintenance work, which would both ease updates considerably and also > let us carry per-topic instead of per-file patches and save on patch > administrative overhead. > Far too many times, I've spent ages working on a patch and it simply got deleted by the developer who next updated the package. This pattern has mostly discoraged me from working on pkgsrc outside of stuff I personally use and nobody else touches, which I think is where a lot of other people are at. I'm in favour of any tooling that makes this less likely, but ultimately the culture needs to change.