On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ] <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Can you provide an use-case / examples justifying this ? >> >> we use it to add repos or options by installing files >> into /etc/pacman/conf.d/ with a name of testing.conf for a repo called >> testing for example and only add >> >> Include = /etc/pacman/conf.d/*.conf >> >> in /etc/pacman/pacman.conf. > > Forgot to add that this way the pacman.conf is decoupled of the > repositories and can be replaced on updates even if a user added another > repo. > > This was my main motivation in adding the support for globing here. >
Ok thank you, this is exactly what I wanted to know, I think it should help for the discussion. So it looks like globbing could be interesting, but user tilde expansion not so much.
