i think, the ideal solution would be, if you could browse install and uninstall patches via patchmanager. maybe some kind of sub-repo on openrepos.

additional, patches should come with a range of versions, in wich they are tested successfully e.g. 0.7.0 - 1.0.99.
when your OS is out of that version-range, you should get a warning, but the possibility to continue anyway.

but i know, this would be a lot of work, just dreaming