perfect, thanks. i should've checked the wiki, which does mention glob patterns, even though the --help doesn't.

martin


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 2:18 AM, lilydjwg <lilydjwg@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 01:00:21AM +0200, Dominik Peteler wrote:
> Hello Martin,
>
> this is indeed an annoying behaviour of pacman.
> I use the following trick:
>
>     pacman -Syu --ignore $(pacman -Qqu | grep "haskell-" | tr '\n' ',')
>
> There are probably other solutions with sed, awk, ...

You can just use this (note the quote):

pacman -Syu --ignore 'haskell-*'

--
Best regards,
lilydjwg
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