Description of problem:

A customer wants to exclude a directory in general but include some items under a subdirectory.

The aide.conf(5) manpage shows such example:
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------
Add all but directory entries to the database:

!/run d
/run R
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

Trying the example on my system (and removing everything else for clarity), as soon as "!/run d" is specified, nothing gets collected under "/run":
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

1. aide -i
   [...]
   Number of entries: 0
   [...]
   • • • • • • • 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

If I remove "!/run d", then files are collected:
-------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

1. aide -i
   [...]
   Number of entries: 585
   [...]
   • • • • • • • 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ---------------- 8< --------

It hence looks like exclusion gets precedence and there is no way to achieve what we want here.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

aide-0.16-14.el8_5.1.x86_64

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Remove all rules starting from "# Next decide what directories/files you want in the database." comment
2. Add rules on /run

!/run d
/run R

3. Initialize the database

Actual results:

No file entry saved in database

Expected results:

A certain number of file entries saved in database