On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 08:50 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
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> W dniu czw, 15.03.2018 o godzinie 21∶44 +0000, użytkownik Joakim
> Tjernlund napisał:
> > On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 17:02 -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 3:22 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > Allow INSTALL_MASK patterns to start with '-' to indicate that
> > > > a specific match is to be excluded from being masked. In this case,
> > > > the last matching pattern determines whether the file is actually
> > > > filtered out or kept.
> > > > ---
> > 
> > Yes, please ! I just needed this feature 2 hours ago.
> > I need the same for PKG_INSTALL_MASK
> > 
> > I hope this allows me to do:
> > INSTALL_MASK="/usr/share/i18n/locales/* -/usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB 
> > -/usr/share/i18n/locales/sv_SE"
> > to all in /usr/share/i18n/locales/* but /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_GB and 
> > /usr/share/i18n/locales/sv_SE
> > removed in usr/share/i18n/locales/ ?
> > 
> 
> Yes, that is the intended use case.

Thanks, while on the subject I had a similar idea for stripping:

Today one have to build all files in glibc with debug syms just to get debug 
syms for
perf/valgrind in ld.so so it would be great if one could specify that just some 
files
should have debug syms.

 Jocke

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