On 23-Jun-98 Greg A. Woods spoke unto us all:
# Who/what exactly offered the one-change-per-patch-file suggestion for
# pkgsrc modules?  Is there any justification for it that I've not yet
# encountered?  If not is there any reason why we cannot simply eliminate
# that suggestion and slowly revert to using just one patch file?
# 

I would take up arms against that.  

#1 head -2 patches/* tells me what files we are fiddling with

#2 Bob modifies his code, and integrates a fix we had in one of our patches,
releasing version x+.01  Now I just go and delete patch-ab (or wotever) and
things magicly work.  No ripping the patch apart with vi, or patching and
depatching to try and build a new one.. just one simple "rm"

#3 If I want to change the way we fiddle with file.c I just find the
appropriate patch, and replace it.  I dont have to recompile the whole big
patch file, or do surgery on it.

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