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1. Manuel Abeledo Gentoo Linux

   So, what is the most heavily patched distro? Some people on reddit said !gentoo, i'm for !ubuntu

   Wednesday, 17-Feb-10 22:23:06 UTC from web at Corunna, Galicia, Spain
   • Maxime Pelletier

     @manuelabeledo id say gentoo because theres multiple patches for every package for them to build for different configurations

     Wednesday, 17-Feb-10 22:26:00 UTC
   • Ravi Pinjala Maxime Pelletier

     @pm Pretty sure almost all the configuration changes are just done by fiddling ./configure flags, which doesn't even need a patch

     Wednesday, 17-Feb-10 22:27:47 UTC
   • Ravi Pinjala

     @manuelabeledo Ubuntu has a reputation for doing this, same with RH. Dunno how accurate that is though

     Wednesday, 17-Feb-10 22:29:28 UTC
   • Jürgen Geuter

     @manuelabeledo: Gentoo isn't all that patched, plus the patches go upstream and are transparently applied. Ubuntu just drops stuff on you.

     Wednesday, 17-Feb-10 22:29:48 UTC
   • Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum)

     @manuelabeledo i will say ubuntu too :) personally i'm happy with the "patching policy" adopted by gentoo (and of course its developers)

     Wednesday, 17-Feb-10 22:30:00 UTC
   • Maxime Pelletier Ravi Pinjala

     @rxp by configurations I meant differents arch, compilers, glibc, --as-needed, etc

     Wednesday, 17-Feb-10 22:30:36 UTC