[pacman-dev] [RFC][PATCH] Introduce Include key globing for pacman.conf v3

[Xavier]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration
| Westermann GmbH ] <mad at wol.de> wrote:
>> >
>> > Can you provide an use-case / examples justifying this ?
>>
>> we use it to add repos or options by installing files
>> into /etc/pacman/conf.d/ with a name of testing.conf for a repo called
>> testing for example and only add
>>
>> Include = /etc/pacman/conf.d/*.conf
>>
>> in /etc/pacman/pacman.conf.
>
> Forgot to add that this way the pacman.conf is decoupled of the
> repositories and can be replaced on updates even if a user added another
> repo.
>
> This was my main motivation in adding the support for globing here.
>

Ok thank you, this is exactly what I wanted to know, I think it should
help for the discussion.

So it looks like globbing could be interesting, but user tilde
expansion not so much.