On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 15:03 +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: > > > > Perhaps a silly question, but why maintain patches ? Why not compile a > > new version and discard all the patches ? Patches are a messy manner to > > maintain programmes.
> That's fine if you just want to jump ship to a new version. But what if the > new version breaks some things, or changes behaviour in a way you don't want, > or removes a feature. If one compiled a 'new' version containing all those many existing patches, would not that 'new' version simply work exactly as the old version patched by countless alternations ? Regards, Paul. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
