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The -* wildcard has been supported since portage-2.3.4, but it was |
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not explicitly documented. |
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X-Gentoo-Bug: 610670 |
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X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610670 |
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[PATCH v2] clarifies that -* discards @system and @profile |
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packages as suggested by Martin Vaeth. |
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man/portage.5 | 3 ++- |
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1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) |
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diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5 |
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index 82e979ecf..366a1fa85 100644 |
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--- a/man/portage.5 |
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+++ b/man/portage.5 |
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@@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ hurt \fBemerge\fR's ability to parallelize. |
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.I Note: |
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In a cascading profile setup, you can remove packages in children |
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profiles which were added by parent profiles by prefixing the atom with |
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-a '\-'. |
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+a '\-'. The '\-*' wildcard discards all @system and @profile packages |
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+added by parent profiles. |
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.I Example: |
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.nf |
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2.13.0 |
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