[arch-general] '*' in PKGBUILD for the conflicts array

[Allan McRae]

Nezmer at allurelinux.org wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:06:32PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
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>> Aaron Griffin wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Attila<attila at invalid.invalid> wrote:
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>>>> On Mittwoch, 12. August 2009 09:52 Allan McRae wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>> No, that will not work.
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> Perhaps in the future? If not, no problem and i don't want to force you to say
>>>> me a release date.-)
>>>>
>>>> See you, Attila
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>>>>         
>>> You'd have to talk to the pacman guys. I suggest you file a feature
>>> request or email the pacman-dev list
>>>   
>>>       
>> I just replied in the bug report but for those that are interested.... 
>> something like:
>>
>> conflicts=("kdebase-*")
>>
>> may be achieved using
>>
>> conflicts=$(pacman -Ssq kdebase-)
>>
>>
>> I would not recommend the general use of that....
>>
>> Allan
>>     
> That would break setups for people like me who enable "ShowSize" in
> pacman.conf , wouldn't It ?
>   

So it would...  I'm surprized that the -q does not get rid of the size 
there.  Probably a bug report is needed.

Allan