@geek1011: Yeah, I *definitely* get that (plus, handling potential conflicts and duplicates, fun times!
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OTOH, nothing comes to mind, no. My use-case for the patching step is usually patches + hyphens, so, yeah, that works ^^.
My merge the tarballs idea can probably be done the dumb way in like three tar commands in a shell script, so, err, moving along
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@Terisa de morgan: That's indeed a very good point, too
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