1) most (upstream) maintainers want small, easily digestible patches -- so mega-patches must be split up into functional units.
See, for instance, this week's libtool-patches mailing list. http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2003-11/index.html
-- Chuck
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