No "unnecessary" patching, like seriously? I see so many patches in the Arch packages repo I can't even count them all: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-p

No "unnecessary" patching, like seriously? I see so many patches in the Arch packages repo I can't even count them all: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/search?q=patch https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/search?q=patc... https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/search?q=sed https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/search?q=sed But putting that aside, all distros need huge amounts of patching to make each package get along with the rest of the system. Without patching, many of them won't even build in the first place.