* On 2026-06-14 at 10:22 BST, Alistair Crooks wrote:
All in all, though, I find myself much more sympathetic to Benny's and Greg's argument - pkgquilt seems overkill to me, especially for the standard pkgsrc case.
Me too, I'm not smart enough to understand things like quilt. The current patch workflow is trivial enough for me, has good tooling, and I've never hit any limitations with it.
I do think packages such as www/chromium which pushes it to its limits should be done with forked sources though, just like lang/openjdk* are. Much simpler than trying to manage over 1,600 patch files, and saves significant repository bloat.
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