Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] man/portage.5: document -* in profile "packages" files (bug 610670)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 22:04:07
Message-Id: 20170529150354.0de6322b.dolsen@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] man/portage.5: document -* in profile "packages" files (bug 610670) by Zac Medico
1 On Sun, 28 May 2017 13:15:12 -0700
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > The -* wildcard has been supported since portage-2.3.4, but it was
5 > not explicitly documented.
6 >
7 > X-Gentoo-Bug: 610670
8 > X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610670
9 > ---
10 > [PATCH v2] clarifies that -* discards @system and @profile
11 > packages as suggested by Martin Vaeth.
12 >
13 > man/portage.5 | 3 ++-
14 > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
15 >
16 > diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5
17 > index 82e979ecf..366a1fa85 100644
18 > --- a/man/portage.5
19 > +++ b/man/portage.5
20 > @@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ hurt \fBemerge\fR's ability to parallelize.
21 > .I Note:
22 > In a cascading profile setup, you can remove packages in children
23 > profiles which were added by parent profiles by prefixing the atom
24 > with -a '\-'.
25 > +a '\-'. The '\-*' wildcard discards all @system and @profile packages
26 > +added by parent profiles.
27 >
28 > .I Example:
29 > .nf
30
31
32 LGTM
33 --
34 Brian Dolbec <dolsen>

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