On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Always Learning wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 15:39 +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > >> If that's all you're doing, there's no pain in having the patches. >> But what happens if you don't want *all* the patches? > > A heavily patched programme is a messy compromise for system options > which could be handled by run-time configuration options ? But without patches, you're either bound to an old version, or have to track upstream exactly. What if you don't want to? jh