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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:32:31 +0100
From: Alexis <surryhill@gmail.com>
To: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>, Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
Cc: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: Allow configure variables to be set from environment
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Hi Ingo, hi Kristaps,
> > Alexis, you said that the homebrew folks don't like patching
> > software. But there must be a facility to do so, no?
> > Shouldn't this patch be there, and not upstream?

Yes, there is a facility in Homebrew to apply custom patches.
>From my experience the maintainers want those patches to
be very specific to Homebrew and encourage changes to be reported
and made upstream.

> I'm not quite sure that is better.  If we have the patch in our
> tree, the risk that future code changes turn the patch into
> something that actually *does* become a security risk seems
> lower.
> 
> Also note that mdocml.bsd.lv *is* the portable version of mandoc,
> so in the way, it is the right place to maintain such code - as
> long as it doesn't grow out of hand and obscure the code.

I agree with Ingo here.


Best,
Alexis
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