Since the goal of patches is to be able to be fed back to
	the original maintainer where possible, they should use
	#ifdef or similar to ensure they do not impact outside of
	the desired OS/ARCH or similar.

	There are two obvious exceptions:

	    - Where a patch is needed to work with the requirements
	      of pkgsrc.  Though ideally this should be done by a
	      patch to add a build config option and then pkgsrc uses
	      that.

	    - Where patches really are OS or ARCH specific, such as
	      in packages which install binaries, eg: net/citrix_ica or
	      lang/sun-jdk13

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On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Stoned Elipot wrote:

> Hi,
> is there any way to have per OS patches files for a pkg, or do we have
> to use post-patch target hack ? Perhaps per OS patches files is considered
> bad practice ?
>
> Stoned.
>