On Thursday 03 August 2006 01:44, Harald van Dijk wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:07:35AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > Repost from gentoo-portage-dev[1]:
> >
> > Was just brought to my attention that the =* operator doesn't work as I
> > thought, as for example =foo-1.2* matches foo-1.20 as well as foo-1.2.3.
> > This wouldn't be a bug problem if it could be used as a general glob
> > operator like with =foo-1.2.*,
>
> Even if that would be supported, it wouldn't match foo-1.2, unless
> the meaning of * changes.

as mentioned in the portage thread, the meaning of * doesnt really change as 
portage version information tends to be implicitly .0 extended
-mike