2009/11/18 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx>: > The *disadvantage* is that the devs/maintainers have to patch up-stream. > This should be kept to a minimum, primarily to reduce their workload, > and also because it is ASSUMED that if you use Arch, you're capable of > doing the Right Thing (tm) according to your situation, or at least > finding out how to. If you would take the time to look at the packages that are involved in this (namely shadow and kdebase-workspace), you'd see that both /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/kde are manually suplied alongside the PKGBUILDs. So in this case, it's not "patching" but straight "replacing" the "upstream".
