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

[Ray Kohler]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

I think so. There could be enough files that listing them would be
tedious, or it could be that one wants to exclude any future files of
a given pattern, even though one doesn't know what they might be
called.