Re: [arch-general] pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]



On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:34:09 -0600, Aaron Griffin
<aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>>
>> No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list-
>> does it make sense to do so?
> 
> Yes, but it would also be nice to support recursion here as well. For
> instance:
> 
> NoExtract = /usr/share/doc/*
> 
> should disable ALL doc extraction, no matter how deep it's nested

Recursion is a good idea but that's not what is usually expected from *.
I would suggest to use ** like in ZSH if it is implemented. Real regular
expressions support would solve all those problems but that's probably
overkill.


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Wireless]     [Linux Kernel]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Share Photos]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux