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Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)

Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)

Posted Aug 29, 2008 7:35 UTC (Fri) by mikachu (guest, #5333)
In reply to: Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld) by pr1268
Parent article: Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)

Gentoo usually applies tons of patches to packages, examples that come to mind are php and xmms. Most packages have the patches in the package system in /usr/portage, but some have so many that they're bundled in patch archives that are on the distfiles mirrors.


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