* on Monday, 2019-10-28 23:08 +1000, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Yes - all alternatives are symlinks. Symlinks are key-value pairs. Include directories can be symlinked too.
I imagine there may be exceptional situations where the extra power will be nice to have in the future.
Do you have a plausible example where a list of symlinks is not enough?
# pacman -Fl lua lua52 | grep include lua usr/include/ lua usr/include/lauxlib.h lua usr/include/lua.h lua usr/include/lua.hpp lua usr/include/luaconf.h lua usr/include/lualib.h lua52 usr/include/ lua52 usr/include/lua5.2/ lua52 usr/include/lua5.2/lauxlib.h lua52 usr/include/lua5.2/lua.h lua52 usr/include/lua5.2/lua.hpp lua52 usr/include/lua5.2/luaconf.h lua52 usr/include/lua5.2/lualib.h Each of the lua header files lives in /usr/include. A function can symlink all files in a directory using wildcards. Would you not need at least some form of wildcard support in a list of key-value pairs? Daan