Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source

How does one huge tarball make it any easier to rebuild with mock? If they are simply doing just `mock kernel.src.rpm` it makes no difference if it is a huge tarball or 2000 patches. If they do go to try to understand the differences, the huge tarball makes it harder.

This has the makings of a short term mistake on Red Hat, Inc.'s part which is going to continually bite them for the next decade (think: old gcc patch, that *still* gets brought up)....