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From: "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] emerge: add --ignore-world [ y | n ] option (bug 608564)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 23:30:56
Message-Id: 36ee2f2f-7134-ddde-ca01-b457e92a8585@iee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] emerge: add --ignore-world [ y | n ] option (bug 608564) by "M. J. Everitt"
1 On 21/03/18 23:26, M. J. Everitt wrote:
2 > n 20/03/18 04:49, Manuel Rüger wrote:
3 >> Hi Zac,
4 >>
5 >> alternatively could --exclude be extended to support sets?
6 >> So users could --exclude @world or @profile.
7 >>
8 >> Cheers,
9 >> Manuel
10 >>
11 > The idea is sound enough, but I fear the syntax would be too confusing.
12 >
13 > Reading a potential command-line as "emerge <exclude world> <but add to
14 > world-file unless --no-replace specified> <My Package> puts my head into
15 > a spin! I can see it might be clearer for an unmerge perhaps ..
16 >
17 > Unless I'm missing something fundamental ...
18 >
19 On a related note, it would be quite handy to enumerate an
20 "exclude-from" option like rsync/tar(?) to specify a file with the
21 --exclude options in. There could be some way to append @world to this
22 option, perhaps?
23
24 MJE

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