Re: pkgquilt

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 10:04:33PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> The idea would be that you can apply one patch at a time while doing
> maintenance work, which would both ease updates considerably and also
> let us carry per-topic instead of per-file patches and save on patch
> administrative overhead.
> 

Far too many times, I've spent ages working on a patch and
it simply got deleted by the developer who next updated the
package. 

This pattern has mostly discoraged me from working on pkgsrc
outside of stuff I personally use and nobody else touches,
which I think is where a lot of other people are at.

I'm in favour of any tooling that makes this less likely, but
ultimately the culture needs to change.