Bug 204522 – Support atom wildcards in package.use

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Hans de Graaff 2008-01-06 08:55:13 UTC]

What I would like to do in package use is to turn on the 'doc' USE flag for all packages in dev-ruby (with 'doc' turned off globally). Since there are a lot of ruby packages and the set I use changes on a regular basis, I'd like to add something like this to package.use:

=dev-ruby/*  doc

Currently this does not work since package.use requires full atoms.

[Comment 1 Piotr Jaroszyński (RETIRED) 2008-01-06 16:02:43 UTC]

Why the '=' w/o version?

[Comment 2 Hans de Graaff 2008-01-07 07:09:50 UTC]

I'm not sure. :-) The key point for me is to be able to use a wildcard for the atom, so something like 'dev-ruby/* doc' would be fine as well, or if a special character is needed to indicate that this is a wildcard for atoms, perhaps '~dev-ruby/* doc'?

[Comment 3 Piotr Jaroszyński (RETIRED) 2008-01-08 05:59:41 UTC]

I don't think a special operator is necessary, at least in Paludis we didn't need it.

[Comment 4 Piotr Jaroszyński (RETIRED) 2008-01-08 06:02:37 UTC]

On a somehow related note, portage currently accepts '*' as a pkgname, so you can have repo/cat/*/*-1.ebuild and that's why you don't get errors about invalid syntax if you use the '*' already :]

[Comment 5 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2008-01-11 02:17:31 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> On a somehow related note, portage currently accepts '*' as a pkgname,

Where?

(In reply to comment #0)
> I'd like to add something like this to package.use:
> 
> =dev-ruby/*  doc
> 
> Currently this does not work since package.use requires full atoms.

If we could implement #204493 this would be covered too.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 204493 ***