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raskolnikov

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From: France

Registered: 2006-01-08

Posts: 100

NoExtract and wildcards

       NoExtract = <file> [file] ...
              All  files  listed  with  a  NoExtract  directive  will never be
              extracted from a package into the filesystem.  This can be  use-
              ful  when you don't want part of a package to be installed.  For
              example, if your httpd root uses an index.php,  then  you  would
              not  want  the  index.html  file to be extracted from the apache
              package.

Fine... But is a construction like NoExtract = /etc/xinetd.d/* valid for pacman ? I use rsync and netkit-telnet but not the server part of those packages, so I don't need/want xinetd files.

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shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: NoExtract and wildcards

since strcmp is used, I would say no.
But it should be possible to add this feature.

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