alt Hacker NewsInstead of recompiling the source and installing it again, is there a way to monkey patch the already existing package? It seems like a few lines of code.
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ajsnigrutin • today at 7:28 PM
With nice distros like gentoo, you can just drop the .patch file into an apropriate folder and it'll be applied with every re/install/upgrade
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whalesalad • today at 7:08 PM
you can recompile and not install it anywhere, just run the binary you compiled yourself.
That would be incredibly complicated and crash-prone to do.