On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:32:25PM +0100, Klaus Heinz 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.

I've done this now.

grant.