From: Theo Buehler <tb@theobuehler.org>
Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk: PATCH_QUIET
To: Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>
Cc: ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 23:51:14 +0200

On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 09:39:19PM +0000, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> I don't like flooding terminal backlog with stuff I already no.
> 
> Our patch(1) is generally quite verbose, but this helps a lot:
> 
>      -s, --quiet, --silent
>              Makes patch do its work silently, unless an error occurs.

No objection since this is opt-in.

I dislike the noisiness of our patch as well. Unfortunately --quiet is
too quiet, so you will miss fuzz/offset (maybe you update patches
automatically).

I wish there was a mode that made patch behave more like GNU patch in
terms of noisiness (and no, I don't want to set PATCH to gpatch).