p4u/confine-dist — comment on commit fe9d9f8118af8ff5de39bcb80604e3c43e905f79
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By nathansamson:

"I mean, consider I want to patch iperf and we create a fork of the iperf package. When selecting iperf for install, do you know a way to force the compilation/installation of our iperf instead of the mainstream one?"

You should not fork each package, but each feed.
Yeah this might seem as a huge "step" forking 90% of OpenWrt code, but don't see it as forking, just as creating another branch... (What a pity that OpenWrt and Git do not love each other, and there is now one (1) git repository for all OpenWrt branches...