On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Well, in Gentoo we normally resort to using sed to fix these kinds of things. If we can do it, I'm sure the Arch package managers are able to do so.
It might be more annoying, but IMHO it's a bigger problem when a developer is too lax in constraints (since then we've got to tweak the constraints until we find ones that _do_ work).
That is not a bad idea. The only problem I can see with that approach is the error-reports will be hard to understand if they are not filtered through the maintainer of said Gentoo-package. I usually configure my git-repositories to use 'git describe' and add a -dirty or -tainted to that if the tree is not clean when building. This tend to capture the problem of local patches and gives me a hint that something is altered :) -- J.