I do do that at times, but in this case the quickest was to start the emerge (glsa-check -f package) then CTRL-Z it after the unpack, but before the patch stage (easy because there are so many patches), delete patch 9914*, foreground (fg) the job and it works.
My reason for starting this thread was not to flame, but try and add weight to others who have added to the original, long standing bug about this to get this patch formally deleted from the stable branch as its manifestly not needed for the majority of users. The very small group who do need this patch are using gcc4 which is hardly mainstream. Even though the comment was this patch was applied upstream, its actually physically applied by the ebuild, so why cant the ebuild just not apply it? BillK On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 21:56 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "W.Kenworthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skribis: > > 4. Everybodies requirements are different: unless devs get feedback on > > whats important to users, how would they know. I acknowledge that whats > > important to devs is not neccessarily going to gel for the users, but > > the fact that gentoo now does not have a usable desktop for a large part > > of its user community should be a concern for all. > > You could likely use the upstream version rather than the Gentoo > percolated product. That's what I do with my kernel patches, partly > for similar reasons as what you are dealing with. > > -- [email protected] mailing list
