> As long as you are willing to study how your distribution does packaging, That's how I read the article, as saying "figuring out how to make custom package,

> As long as you are willing to study how your distribution does packaging, That's how I read the article, as saying "figuring out how to make custom package, is too difficult" compared to grab source, edit & compile. Author does have a point there. That said, eg. with Gentoo, iirc you'd have 1 huge download directory with vanilla source archives, and a per-package directory with a couple of Gentoo-specific patches. Perhaps with some config file to determine which of those are applied. If making custom mods to a package is a recurring task, then it shouldn't be too hard to go through the docs & figure out how to add another patch.