Grant Baillie wrote: > Hmm... we currently patch around a dozen of the projects we build. > (Some, like Python IIRC, don't apply for Linux). What does that mean > for relying on existing system packages?
Some patches are also just build patches for our special environment (for example M2Crypto). So there are a bunch of packages we have in external/ that could already be system packages instead. As for those packages that have patches we should work harder at trying to get them integrated into the mainline projects so we wouldn't need to maintain those patches. In cases where we just have to have patches we could either make an alternative system package, or in some cases get the official package maintainer apply the patch even if the original project doesn't want it (I guess these cases would be rare). -- Heikki Toivonen
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