Re: pacman.conf: can I use wildcards?

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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Well, ** isn't valid in standard POSIX globbing and require additional
coding to make it happen


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