Right now we have support in some packages for user patches - those being patches dropped into /etc/portage/patches/pkgname/ - which are automatically applied. Because this feature is implemented by epatch_user() in eutils.eclass, it is only available for ebuilds that inherit eutils and explicitly call epatch_user or inherit another eclass that calls it in an exported phase (eg. base). The end result is a very inconsistent experience, where user patches may or may not work not only on a package-by-package basis, but ebuild-by-ebuild.
Is there any reason why this couldn't just be done in the package manager, making user patches available for all ebuilds without code changes? -- fonts, gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org
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