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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 05:20:33
Message-Id: slrnoikngk.bb2.martin@lounge.imp.fu-berlin.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] man/portage.5: document -* in profile "packages" files (bug 610670) by Zac Medico
1 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
2 > The -* wildcard has been supported since portage-2.3.4, but it was
3 > not explicitly documented.
4
5 Shouldn't this be -** to remove all _system_ packages?
6 Or does -* really mean to remove only _profile_ packages?
7 Or does -* remove all profile _and_ system packages?

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