>>>>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Kent Fredric wrote:

> I don't believe it works that way.

> That would imply

> =pkg-1.0.2* would match 1.0.20

It does, in fact.

> When it only matches 1.0.2 and 1.0.2.*

> You're reading it in shell glob notation and not the portage notation,
> that the trailing dot is *implied*,

No, there isn't any dot implied. It uses simple prefix comparison, as
in shell globbing.

> which is why explictly stating it is illegal.

Explicitly stating the dot is illegal, because without the asterisk it
must still be a valid version specification.

Ulrich

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