Re: pkg_info(1) and wildcards / by-file listenings

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:55:48PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry, I was unclear. I want *shell* wildcards to fail, e.g.
> > >         pkg_info -e lib*
> > > as opposed to
> > >         pkg_info -e lib\*
> >
> >         OK, makes sense - though thats more an artifact of where the
> >         user is (/var/db/pkg would be a notable exception :)
> >
> >         What did you think of allowing multiple arguments via
> >         'pkg_info -e xtrans xsnow'
>
> You can't distinguish that from a shell having expanded a wildcard.
> That's why I suggested to "fix" the option handling so that -e pattern
> can be given more than once.

        I can understand that, though potentially that same issue
        applies to just straight pkg_info or pkg_delete, so POLS
        would probably suggest pkg_info -e just takes multiple
        arguments in a similar fashion.

        But if I'm not writing the code I'm not going to complain
        either way :)


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