Dnia 2015-06-22, o godz. 14:40:42
Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):

> On 06/22/2015 02:23 PM, Jason Zaman 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
> > 
> 
> Last time this came up, I suggested that we introduce a generic PLUGINS
> USE_EXPAND than many packages could utilize. That way, the plugins are
> still distinguished from the other flags in IUSE, but we don't have to
> introduce a new USE_EXPAND for every package.

Soo... plugins.desc would describe plugins to a lot of different
packages? Like:

foo - [in bar] Support for libfoo, [in baz] does something a bit
different

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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