[pacman-dev] [RFC][PATCH] Introduce Include key globing for pacman.conf v4

[Xavier]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration |
> Westermann GmbH ] <mad at wol.de> wrote:
>> This patch adds the ability to use Include filenames
>> containing wildcards.
>>
>> Added a headercheck for glob.h to configure.ac.
>> Added a globfree call to clean up the struct properly.
>> Removed tilde expanding.
>> Fixed a no debug print on GLOB_NOMATCH condition bug.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marc-A. Dahlhaus <mad at wol.de>
>> ---
> Xavier, comments here? I kind of dropped this one on the floor, but a
> quick review and I think it is good.
>

I am still not convinced that this is terribly useful. But its like 10
lines, so no big deal :)
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-September/009361.html

Like, if it's used for repos, you cannot even control their priority ?
Sounds like a show-stopper to me.
If not for repos, what else ?