Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCH] man/portage.5: document -* in profile "packages" files (bug 610670)
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 13:03:07
Message-Id: slrnoilik1.mbq.martin@lounge.imp.fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCH] man/portage.5: document -* in profile "packages" files (bug 610670) by Zac Medico
1 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > The -* affects both
4
5 Thanks. Maybe this could be pointed out more explicit in the
6 documentation patch you suggested: I have asked, because the
7 text was not completely clear to me.
8
9 > I don't think we need a -** token. What do you think?
10
11 I do not need this feature.
12 I just wanted to learn how it works in order to fix eix:
13 In current master (eix-0.32.9_alpha3), "-*" meant removal of system packages
14 while a plain "-" meant removal of profile packages.
15 Obviously, I just misunderstood and will fix eix.

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