parsing the 'exclude' option has unexpected effects

[Chiitoo]

Perhaps other options will do this as well, but for example:

smart-live-rebuild -- --ask --keep-going --exclude falkon

Reults in:

*** Forking to drop superuser privileges ...
*** Updating the repositories using 6 parallel jobs...
->  https://invent.kde.org/network/falkon.git [HEAD]
--> git ls-remote https://invent.kde.org/network/falkon.git HEAD
->  [www-client/falkon:0] https://invent.kde.org/network/falkon.git [HEAD]
--> update from fa41b5ce193992c23a2e6907d5c17e9e0208174c to 16b088bccfa7cfc139225d8f35003e5ba3cf6533
*** Found 1 packages to rebuild (out of 1 live packages).
->  emerge --oneshot --getbinpkg=n --usepkg-exclude www-client/falkon:0 --ask --keep-going --exclude falkon www-client/falkon:0

The same will happen with:

smart-live-rebuild -- --ask --keep-going --exclude "falkon"

However, if a whitespace is added:

smart-live-rebuild -- --ask --keep-going --exclude "falkon "

it will take us to:

[...]
*** Found 1 packages to rebuild (out of 35 live packages).
->  emerge --oneshot --getbinpkg=n --usepkg-exclude www-client/falkon:0 --ask --keep-going --exclude 'falkon ' www-client/falkon:0

These are the packages that would be merged:

Calculating dependencies               ... done!
Dependency resolution took 0.85 s.


Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB

Nothing to merge; quitting.

[mgorny]

Err but it doesn't really parse these options, so you're looking at Portage behavior?

[Chiitoo]

D'oh, right, though isn't the list of packages built before it gets to 'emerge'?

Whenever I exclude only one package (without a white space), only one package is found instead of 35.

Thanks!