On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 04:56:19AM +0200, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> I meant something along the lines of "heavily patched - here be dragons"
> so users know this before installing it.

I don't think the amount of patches is important enough to warrant
mention in either DESCR or README.

It's a port. Some ports requires lots of patches, some don't.
It really depends on the nature of the software being ported.

I can give you at least two other examples:

olsrd has a relatively large amount of local patches to fix bugs
in otherwise unmaintained upstream code. Will people running olsrd
on OpenBSD want to read about that in a README? I doubt it.
They will either find that it just works or is still broken for them.

Chromium has lots of patches, but I don't want to be lectured about
that when installing it. And it's broken somewhat (randomly crashes
on startup) but I don't need a warning for that in a README.

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