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

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, clemens fischer
<ino-news at spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> wrote:
> I could not find any decisive answer in either the man page or on the
> web.  Here's my question:  in etc/pacman.conf, can I use entries such
> as:
>
>  NoExtract = usr/share/man/man1/mkisofs*
>  NoExtract = etc/logrotate.d/*
>
> or:
>
>  NoUpgrade = etc/cron.daily/logrotate etc/logrotate.*

No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list-
does it make sense to do so?

-Dan