[development] 5.x: menu module is semi-required?!

[Moshe Weitzman]

Gabor Hojtsy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are running Drupal.hu (on Drupal 5.1) with menu module turned off. We 
> don't need those features. By looking at the code though, system.install 
> has the menu table creation code, so menu module has no schema control 
> of its own. Menu module is certainly not required, since sites run fine 
> without it (we have custom primary navigation written in few lines of 
> PHP code, which is a lot more performant then menu.module).
> 
> My question is that leaving menu.module install code in system.install 
> was just on oversight, or is menu module required after all for some 
> more exotic reasons (not only navigation menu editing)? If the latter is 
> the case, the next Drupal 5.x might need a fix to make menu.module 
> required. But I doubt.
> 
> Ps. I know the menu is being reworked for Drupal 6.x, so this is not 
> applicable to HEAD.
> 
> Gabor

all core modules have their install code in system.install. we never got 
around to refactoring nthat before code freeze.

menu.module is not required.