[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Enable Perl regular expressions in NoExtract.

[Florian Pritz]

On 05.06.2013 08:23, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 02:16:22AM -0400, Andrew Gregory wrote:
>>  NoExtract = glob::usr/share/locale/*
>>  NoExtract = pcre::usr/share/locale/(?!en_US).*
> 
> Still, it doesn't feel right to prefix every regex and it's unlikely
> users will mix glob and pcre.
> 
> Because of this I'd prefer the MatchStyle option.

I'm leaning towards MatchStyle here too. fnmatch's features (probably *
being the only one used, if any at all) can be rewritten in pcre rather
simply.

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