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

[clemens fischer]

Attila wrote:

> At Donnerstag, 18. Februar 2010 02:13 Dan McGee wrote:
> 
>> No, we don't support globbing in these options. Question to the list-
>> does it make sense to do so?
> 
> Instead this makes something easier i must say that this could be
> dangerous too because it could end in some strange questions in the
> support area.

Not likely.  Files named like something/other*, with the star being
a literal instead of a glob are very, very rare.

On the contrary, people have provided good examples where wildcards are
useful.

> Perhaps it could helps if you makes it possible to use a include file
> for this because than appending a file in this file is easier as to
> edit pacman.conf.  This "harder way" for NoUpgrade has the advantage
> that you even know which file is the reason why you edit it because
> sometimes i don't know weeks or months later what i have done ... but
> this be more my self-critical 2c.-)

That's what comments are for.  Remember the '#' hash mark?


clemens