[development] 4.8/5.0: Modules, the install system, and directories

[Morbus Iff]

> The one thing missing is that modules should be able to declare what 
> other modules need to be enabled. I think I agree with Steven's basic 
> premise that we don't want to auto-activate modules unless the operator 
> says it's ok, so in my ideal world I'd come back with a list of modules 
> that need to be activated and say "activate all these modules too?" kind 
> of like yum does. I assume apt does roughly the same thing.

I think that's too much workflow:

  * user clicks checkbox.
  * user clicks submit.
  * user gets message listing pre-reqs.
  * user clicks all pre-reqs.
  * user clicks submit.
  * user gets more pre-req messages.

I'd much rather see the pre-req's listed in the description:

  name   |   description (requires: comments)   |   [] []

Then when the user clicks the box, we *can* enable the pre-reqs without 
further user intervention, because we can assume he saw the required 
components part of the description, and still wants to continue.

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