Usage without plugin 'cocoapods-patch'

[tien]

It appear that patches were applied correctly even without adding plugin 'cocoapods-patch' to Podfile. How was this possible?

[RamProg]

Is this not really necessary?

[jimmyeisenhauer]

I noticed this as well. I removed the plugin line from my pod file and I still see the log that it is applying patches. I noticed if I remove the gem from my gem file it does not do this. Maybe something in cocoapods and plugins?