gh-35363 was closed by gh-41608

[mattip]

The NCCL issues we needed to patch were fixed on latest master. At some point, when all the open branches are using gh-41608, we should drop the patching code.

[pearu]

There is a reason for keeping the patches in the activate script: when doing git bisect, the earlier revisions of pytorch may require the patch.

So, I'd keep the patch in the activate script for a little while more and remove it, say, within the next 5 months when git-bisecting the relevant parts of pytorch history will be less likely needed.