commit:     90a15aad608c87a7a03dade22592fa95a0ac4fbd
Author:     Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Sun May 28 04:17:03 2017 +0000
Commit:     Brian Dolbec <dolsen <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Tue May 30 09:56:34 2017 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=90a15aad

man/portage.5: document -* in profile "packages" files (bug 610670)

The -* wildcard has been supported since portage-2.3.4, but it was
not explicitly documented.

X-Gentoo-Bug: 610670
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610670
Acked-by: Brian Dolbec <dolsen <AT> gentoo.org>

 man/portage.5 | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5
index 82e979ecf..366a1fa85 100644
--- a/man/portage.5
+++ b/man/portage.5
@@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ hurt \fBemerge\fR's ability to parallelize.
 .I Note:
 In a cascading profile setup, you can remove packages in children
 profiles which were added by parent profiles by prefixing the atom with
-a '\-'.
+a '\-'. The '\-*' wildcard discards all @system and @profile packages
+added by parent profiles.
 
 .I Example:
 .nf

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