ok, thought about this now for too long. I think the best solution circumventing memory consumption and not introducing "hacks" is to seperate module information (and probably more in 3.2 for installation/uninstallation) from the main code.

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phpBB/includes/acp/info/acp_attachments.php

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+<?php
+/** 
+*
+* @package acp
+* @version $Id$
+* @copyright (c) 2005 phpBB Group 
+* @license http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php GNU Public License 
+*
+*/
+
+/**
+* @package module_install
+*/
+class acp_attachments_info
+{
+	function module()
+	{
+		return array(
+			'filename'	=> 'acp_attachments',
+			'title'		=> 'ACP_ATTACHMENTS',
+			'version'	=> '1.0.0',
+			'modes'		=> array(
+				'attach'		=> array('title' => 'ACP_ATTACHMENT_SETTINGS', 'auth' => 'acl_a_attach'),
+				'extensions'	=> array('title' => 'ACP_MANAGE_EXTENSIONS', 'auth' => 'acl_a_attach'),
+				'ext_groups'	=> array('title' => 'ACP_EXTENSION_GROUPS', 'auth' => 'acl_a_attach'),
+				'orphan'		=> array('title' => 'ACP_ORPHAN_ATTACHMENTS', 'auth' => 'acl_a_attach')
+			),
+		);
+	}
+
+	function install()
+	{
+	}
+
+	function uninstall()
+	{
+	}
+}
+
+?>