Hi devs, though I'm sitting in a glass house, I'd like to throw some stones about our social contract.
If you add patches to some program (for errno problems, gcc 3.3 compatibility, whatever) or do workarounds (for enforcing FHS-compliant paths) - please provide some feedback upstream, tell the developers about the problem. If you don't do it because of the social contract, please do it for laziness - sending a patch to the author once is less trouble than checking the patches for every new release :-) Bye, Patrick (just wrote this because I got some quick and very constructive response after sending patches to the program's developers - these patches already were in portage for quite some time)
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