On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:17 AM, William Hooper <whooperhsd at gmail.com> 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. > > For the same reason that Red Hat uses patches to back port security > updates and functionality into the kernel, httpd, and most of the > other packages in RHEL. I thought that was no longer true for the 6.x kernel. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com