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On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 09:02:03 -0400
Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org> wrote:

> patches as add on ebuilds, such as emerge vanillia-kernel,
> emerge grsecurity-patch, emerge nvidia-patch, etc. 


That would make it far more difficult to separate the patches (some
patches poverlap and make bad things happen, some things need to be
reworked to work with different patches)  and the fact that its a bit of
policy to not have multiple packages mess with the same files on the
disk. (if they do thats a bug in my opinion)


//Spider

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