Permit patterns into popt aliases in POPT 2.0/1.17

Registered by devzero2000

There have been instances where this feature would be useful, for example http://rpm.org/gitweb?p=rpm.git;a=commit;h=319a04d74ace9bffc0042e13497b257cfd7a5d46

The "fix" here is to permit patterns into popt aliases in POPT 2.0/1.17
so that, say,
       rpm* alias --requires ...
matches a set of executable basenames. There's other approaches but
the general issue is how to represent a 1-to-N mapping onto a set
of executables efficiently.

Just for remainder, changing a strcmp
a glob match in popt alias handling is perhaps 10-20
lines of code. glob is already used by popt so all the
AutoFu and everything else are already in place.

Blueprint information

Status:
Not started
Approver:
Jeff Johnson
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
devzero2000
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
None
Definition:
New
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Not started
Milestone target:
milestone icon 1.17

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Just for remainder, changing a strcmp
a glob match in popt alias handling is perhaps 10-20
lines of code. glob is already used by popt so all the
AutoFu and everything else are already in place.

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