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Remove safe wildcard #3697

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14 changes: 14 additions & 0 deletions reference/conanfile/methods/configure.rst
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Expand Up @@ -29,6 +29,20 @@ recipe to remove them so they are not used in the recipe:
# No need to delete those settings here, they were already deleted
pass

For packages where you want to remove every subsetting of a setting, you can use the ``rm_safe`` method
with a wildcard:

.. code-block:: python

settings = "os", "compiler", "build_type", "arch"

def configure(self):
self.settings.rm_safe("compiler.*")


This will remove all the subsettings of the ``compiler`` setting, like ``compiler.libcxx`` or ``compiler.cppstd``,
but keep the ``compiler`` setting itself (Which ``self.settings.rm_safe("compiler")`` would remove).

Likewise, for a package containing a library, the ``fPIC`` option really only applies when the
library is compiled as a static library, but otherwise, the ``fPIC`` option doesn't make sense,
so it should be removed:
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