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. -- Thanks, Zac
