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It works fine for applying the patch, but then you have to manually follow all of the build steps, turn it into a distribution package, etc. With Nix it is easy to edit an upstream package that already knows how to build the software, to include the patch.



I have been doing this with the Arch Linux AUR for many years and it works well too




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