There have been a couple of discussions about it previously, IIRC. The intent to dissuade new ones, not eliminate old ones AFAICR.
On June 22, 2015 5:23:13 PM EDT, Jason Zaman <ja...@perfinion.com> wrote: >On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:55:45PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: >> Dnia 2015-06-22, o godz. 16:38:30 >> Jason Zaman <perfin...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I want to add STRONGSWAN_PLUGINS to USE_EXPAND. This is related to >bug >> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504942 >> > "net-misc/strongswan missing USE flags for plugins" >> > >> > Patrick said to fix it myself, the ebuilds with the plugins have >> > been in the tree for a fair while now and only the USE_EXPAND is >> > missing. >> > >> > If there are no objections, I will commit the following patch on >friday: >> >> USE_EXPAND is global by its nature. USE flags used by a single >package >> are not appropriate for making global. > >Since when? There are so many things in USE_EXPAND that are only for a >single package. > >APACHE2_MODULES, NGINX_MODULES_HTTP, COLLECTD_PLUGINS, QEMU_*, etc. >Easily half of the things in USE_EXPAND are for only a single package. > >-- Jason -- NP-Hardass
