[Quilt-dev] Re: [PATCH] Remember location of patches and series file

[David Paleino]

Raphael Hertzog wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Martin Panter wrote:
>> I've done this by allowing a local version of .pc/quiltrc. I'm
>> attaching two patches against quilt-0.48 that are related to this that
>> you can use if you want:
> 
> It's a possibility but not my preferred one because someone still has to
> setup the quiltrc file manually.

And, besides that, quilt documentation says that all it's needed to share 
patches is QUILT_PATCHES (specifically, the series file and the patches).
Requiring the user to change things in .pc/ would break this "portability".

(cfr. quilt.pdf, §5.3)

Kindly,
David

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