Merging Patches from 1448102.1 (Pre-install Customer Report)

 Good Afternoon,

Note 1448102.1 has identified between 150 and 200 pre-install patches we need to merge before running American English.  We're currently in the process of evaluating the applicability of each patch to our environment and looking for potential conflicts.  We've already identified several patches that have been superseded, and will take the superseded patch if it is also a pre-install patch.  If it isn't, we'll apply the old one pre-install and the new one post-upgrade.

What I'm wondering is if we can just blindly merge all these patches without worrying about order of application or other things?  Some of the patches say they need to come after other sets of patches, for instance, but I am assuming it is because they overwrite files patched by older patches... which merge should address.