That would be incredibly complicated and crash-prone to do.
replyWith 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
replyI'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.
replyyou can recompile and not install it anywhere, just run the binary you compiled yourself.
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