Only if you want to maintain a private copy in perpetuity. It's always more constructive to work with an upstream. Though in the case of GNOME, that's rarely

Only if you want to maintain a private copy in perpetuity. It's always more constructive to work with an upstream. Though in the case of GNOME, that's rarely productive. I had one of my contributions sit around (with tested patch ready to apply) for 10 years! Despite comments saying it was good to apply. That entire component ended up dying through lack of maintenance even when people were happy to contribute effort. GNOME's problems like squarely with its terrible choices.