Proposal: mechanism for local patches

[Dmitry Marakasov]

* Wesley Shields (wxs at FreeBSD.org) wrote:

> I like you're idea here, but unfortunately directory names are not
> unique.  For example there is japanese/xchat and irc/xchat.  This means
> you'll have to go with the "dual-level" layout.

As it was suggested, there's UNIQUENAME, but I'd prefer
category/portname then. UNIQUENAME may be unintuitive sometimes.

> > Here's the draft patch for this functionality:
> > 
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~amdmi3/local-patchdir.patch
> 
> Other than the above comment I like the patch and would love to see it
> implemented.  I think it can provide a benefit in situations where
> companies/people are doing things with ports that they do not want to
> contribute back.

That's always useful, I think I'll improve it and make it committed
after the freeze is over.

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