Instead of recompiling the source and installing it again, is there a way to monkey patch the already existing package? It seems like a few lines of code.

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Pay08 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That would be incredibly complicated and crash-prone to do.

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ajsnigrutin 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

With nice distros like gentoo, you can just drop the .patch file into an apropriate folder and it'll be applied with every re/install/upgrade

	▲	cxr 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'd rather more like to imagine a software packaging/distribution regimen whereby dropping a patch(1)-compatible patch file into "an appropriate folder" meant that it would instantly take effect the very next time you run the program.

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whalesalad 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

you can recompile and not install it anywhere, just run the binary you compiled yourself.