Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] man/portage.5: document -* in profile "packages" files (bug 610670)
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 04:42:33
Message-Id: 20170528043939.6958-1-zmedico@gentoo.org
1 The -* wildcard has been supported since portage-2.3.4, but it was
2 not explicitly documented.
3
4 X-Gentoo-Bug: 610670
5 X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610670
6 ---
7 man/portage.5 | 3 ++-
8 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
9
10 diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5
11 index 82e979ecf..a538b4b56 100644
12 --- a/man/portage.5
13 +++ b/man/portage.5
14 @@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ hurt \fBemerge\fR's ability to parallelize.
15 .I Note:
16 In a cascading profile setup, you can remove packages in children
17 profiles which were added by parent profiles by prefixing the atom with
18 -a '\-'.
19 +a '\-'. The '\-*' wildcard discards all packages added by parent
20 +profiles.
21
22 .I Example:
23 .nf
24 --
25 2.13.0

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