Gentoo patches [was Re: [CLUE-Tech] Escape from RH 8.0]

[David Anselmi]

Collins wrote:
[...]
> 
> A little bit <OT>, since I can't help you with the RH RPM-Hell or GUI-hell, 
> but at this point in such a query I usually ask myself, why would anyone want 
> to run anything but gentoo?

Looking for a religious argument?  Please move that to CLUE-Talk.

Since you bring it up, suppose I have a patch that gentoo doesn't.  How 
hard is it to get a patched version of the package installed?

I'm trying this on Debian right now.  It is easy to build a binary 
package from the source package but I'm not sure how it will work to 
patch the source package first.  Looks easy but I also expect problems 
in the long term from installing a custom package this way.  I haven't 
seen a clear explanation of the Right Way(tm) to do this.

Gentoo looks like an interesting distro, mostly because it handles a 
problem I'm having on Debian at the moment.  I hope I can find time to 
try it out.

Dave