--- uclibc-0.9.33.2.ebuild	2012-06-09 03:01:27.000000000 -0400
+++ uclibc-0.9.33.2-r1.ebuild	2012-06-30 18:08:28.000000000 -0400
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 LICENSE="LGPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
-IUSE="debug hardened iconv ipv6 nptl rpc ssp uclibc-compat wordexp crosscompile_opts_headers-only"
+IUSE="debug hardened iconv ipv6 nptl rpc ssp uclibc-compat wordexp crosscompile_opts_headers-only vanilla"
 RESTRICT="strip"
 
 S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
 		unpack ${A}
 	fi
 	cd "${S}"
-	if [[ -n ${PATCH_VER} ]] ; then
+	if ! use vanilla && [[ -n ${PATCH_VER} ]] ; then
 		EPATCH_SUFFIX="patch" epatch "${WORKDIR}"/patch
 	fi