joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:50:44AM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> 
>>Does it relate to a manual page, or manual application of a patch? (I
>>think I can guess, but I don't see the logic behind this).
> 
> 
> They are used for patches which are included for reference purposes, but
> not used as part of the package build. I didn't invent that idea, but
> borrowed from devel/libtool. It is used by Todd for the regeneration of
> the pkgsrc specific bits, since the same files are also installed and
> must not be tainted. I've used it in wxGTK for the Bakefile diffs used
> to generate the patchset.

In this case, I prefer to restrict the patches/ directory for what its 
purpose is: containing patches that are applied when building the 
package. The name of the other directory, files/, is broad enough to 
also contain the other patch files.

Roland