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On Feb 26, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:


Didn't we decide that arch specific patches were a bad idea?

I hope not; there are plenty of archs that need arch-specific patches.

Of course in the case that the patch is not truly arch-specific, but is being applied to a single arch only out of "courtesy" to the maintainter, I would say that it is a bad idea.

My general approach to this second case is to make the change arch-specific and then file a bug and/or email to the maintainer to make it arch-independent. I also throw a todo in my calendar reminding me to bug the said maintainer if there is no reply in 1 month.

Lina Pezzella
Ebuild/Porting Co-Lead
Gentoo for Mac OS X
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