From 5c59fdb57cf5abae41e47a670a47135dc7680c1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: guybedford <guybedford@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 15:17:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] allow an @empty plugin module to imply a runtimePlugin

---
 lib/trace.js | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/trace.js b/lib/trace.js
index fe3d103..4ebaa10 100644
--- a/lib/trace.js
+++ b/lib/trace.js
@@ -407,7 +407,11 @@ Trace.prototype.getLoadRecord = function(canonical, traceOpts, parentStack) {
           .then(function(pluginNormalized) {
             load.plugin = getCanonicalName(loader, pluginNormalized);
 
-            if (pluginNormalized.indexOf('!') == -1 && load.metadata.loaderModule.build !== false && getPackage(loader.packages, pluginNormalized)) {
+            if (load.metadata.loaderModule && 
+                (load.metadata.loaderModule.build === false || Object.keys(load.metadata.loaderModule).length == 0))
+              load.runtimePlugin = true;
+
+            if (pluginNormalized.indexOf('!') == -1 && !load.runtimePlugin && getPackage(loader.packages, pluginNormalized)) {
               var packageConfigPath = getPackageConfigPath(loader.packageConfigPaths, pluginNormalized);
               if (packageConfigPath) {
                 load.pluginConfig = getCanonicalName(loader, packageConfigPath);
@@ -417,10 +421,8 @@ Trace.prototype.getLoadRecord = function(canonical, traceOpts, parentStack) {
           });
       })
       .then(function() {
-        if (load.metadata.loaderModule && load.metadata.loaderModule.build === false) {
-          load.runtimePlugin = true;
+        if (load.runtimePlugin)
           return load;
-        }
 
         curHook = 'fetch';