Ok choroba, having helped me out, your reward is more questions ;-) You wrote:

This comment contains a link to a distroprefs patch.

So, I attempted to learn about distroprefs on my own (how did I not know about this? it's a mystery–I have used cpan for a long time). I read this short article by brian d foy. I'm setting things up according to the instructions. My remaining question is: where's the actual patch? Can I get it from github (I looked around, I'm still rather clumsy with github)? The yaml file linked to in the comment is 1/2 of what I need, the patch is the other 1/2. If you you can guide me I'll send you cookies (well not really but I will be grateful). If I have to, I'll make a patch myself, so, not a big deal.

    — Soren

Oct 13, 2025 at 18:22 UTC

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