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

[Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ]]

Am Freitag, den 11.09.2009, 11:45 +0200 schrieb 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.

Thanks.

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

I agree. Will look if it can be deactivated...

Marc