I said that just because quite every patch we apply at Gentoo is provided by upstream directly, backporting from their CVS/SVN, or just fixed the different environments on platforms that other distributions doesn't take care (FreeBSD or OSX for example).
The less we get far from upstream, the simpler the maintenance of the packages are.
There are just a few packages we patch with extra code, and of this, just occasionally we have broken patches; the ratio of software patched not following upstream in portage is quite low, most of them are just packages maintained no more.
Debian, on the other hand, patches a lot more packages to suit their needs, and sometimes we use their patches, too. Unfortunately they have a specific environment (Linux) while Gentoo must live with OSX and FreeBSD, too.
I don't talk about broken patches in that sentence, just about bad patches wrt portability, as Gentoo has a different requirement for them.
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Re:Ah, the perfection
Posted by: Flameeyes on July 27, 2005 03:19 PMThe less we get far from upstream, the simpler the maintenance of the packages are.
There are just a few packages we patch with extra code, and of this, just occasionally we have broken patches; the ratio of software patched not following upstream in portage is quite low, most of them are just packages maintained no more.
Debian, on the other hand, patches a lot more packages to suit their needs, and sometimes we use their patches, too. Unfortunately they have a specific environment (Linux) while Gentoo must live with OSX and FreeBSD, too.
I don't talk about broken patches in that sentence, just about bad patches wrt portability, as Gentoo has a different requirement for them.
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