Bug 775476

Summary:	portage: --usepkg-exclude should allow "*::overlay"
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	wolfgang <ezzieyguywuf>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gentoo
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description wolfgang 2021-03-11 15:57:44 UTC

I think the --usepkg-exclude feature is great (thanks!), but I find that it would be useful to exclude any binpkgs that were created in an overlay.

This would be helpful when developing, say, an ebuild in ::gentoo that depends on packages that are present in both ::gentoo and ::haskell.

By issuing --usepkg-exclude="*::haskell", I can be sure that I'm replicated the use-case where a user is not using the haskell overlay.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge --usepkg-exclude="*::haskell" pandoc

Actual Results:  
"emerge: error: Invalid Atom(s) is --usepkg-exclude parameter"

Expected Results:  
No error

Comment 1 Sergei Trofimovich (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2021-03-11 22:22:16 UTC

I think slightly more conformant syntax would be:
    $ emerge --usepkg-exclude="*/*::haskell" pandoc
which is not accepted today.