18 Nov
2009
18 Nov
'09
11:58 a.m.
2009/11/18 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@gmail.com>:
The *disadvantage* is that the devs/maintainers have to patch up-stream. This should be kept to a minimum, primarily to reduce their workload, and also because it is ASSUMED that if you use Arch, you're capable of doing the Right Thing (tm) according to your situation, or at least finding out how to.
If you would take the time to look at the packages that are involved in this (namely shadow and kdebase-workspace), you'd see that both /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/kde are manually suplied alongside the PKGBUILDs. So in this case, it's not "patching" but straight "replacing" the "upstream".