grant beattie wrote:

> there's probably also legitimate cases of wanting to patch a binary,
> though I don't think that would happen too often..

I would have liked input from the J. Lam (the author) about it, but I
guess we won't get it from him soon.
For the time being subst.mk breaks (at least one) packages as it is.
I say let't remove it now.

ciao
     Klaus