Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Add HEXCHAT_PLUGINS to USE_EXPAND

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

On 03/27/2013 05:52 AM, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
> Le mardi 26 mars 2013 à 22:28 +0100, Denis M. a écrit :
>> On 03/21/2013 02:09 PM, Denis M. wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, I'd want to ask if it's possible and a good idea to add
>>> HEXCHAT_PLUGINS to the global USE_EXPAND var.
>>>
>>> HEXCHAT_PLUGINS has been created as a user (and maintainer) request
>>> in bug 461972 [1] to handle easily the net-irc/hexchat plugins that
>>> this package offers, which are: checksum, doat, fishlim and sysinfo.
>>>
>>> The purposed ebuild can be found on the bug's attached files list.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Denis M. (Phr33d0m)
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461972 
>> Bump. 
>>
>> Hi again, could I get a decisive answer on this please?
> 
> That does not sound like a bad idea, however I wonder how this extends
> exactly if we start to do this for ebuilds which install a couple of
> plugins behind a few regular USE flags nowadays like rhythmbox, abiword,
> etc.

The only potential problem that I can think of is that it bloats the
environment with an extra variable that's exported to all ebuilds. With
older kernels, environment bloat triggered E2BIG errors, as reported in
this bug:

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262647
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Thanks,
Zac