Patchsets for some Emacs packages have become too large to keep them in the ebuild repository, and are therefore maintained in a separate repository. From there, they are bundled up into a tar archive which is distributed via the Gentoo mirroring system. Specific information about the patches can usually be found at the top of each patch. The patches are kept in the following Git repository, master branch: https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/proj/emacs-patches.git git+ssh://git@git.gentoo.org/proj/emacs-patches.git https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/emacs-patches.git Patch naming follows this convention: __.patch The is used for consistent patch ordering. The field is ignored but should be "all" for backward compatibility. (Applying patches only for a specific architecture is not supported any more.)