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Re: kernel with supermount



> Previously Joseph Carter wrote:
>> However, I must agree that more or less every major distribution except us
>> supplies a rather heavily patched kernel.  In truth, the reason not to
>> patch our kernel is more in that maintaining our patches is a PITA with
>> the current source packages and that dbs is no substitute for a modern
>> source package format.  =p

FWIW, my policy is to minimise the amount of new features, while including
any bug fixes which are necessary.  Oh, and CVS (which I use for all my
packages) has no problems dealing with a large amount of patches.
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