Github user spmallette commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-tinkerpop/pull/245#issuecomment-207068865 I don't think there are any easy solutions here. I'll comment in more detail in JIRA but I'm not seeing how this gets done without considerable change to our approach to plugins. As long as we use `ServiceLoader` and require an instance of a plugin its going to load things that are inactive. I think we should probably just close this PR.
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