[development] Defining additional search paths for modules?

[Daniel F. Kudwien]

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> From: development-bounces at drupal.org 
> [mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Justin Davis
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 7:55 PM
> To: development at drupal.org
> Subject: [development] Defining additional search paths for modules?
> 
> Hello All.
> 
> My apologies if this belongs in "support" rather than "development".
> 
> I am managing a multi-site drupal installation and would like 
> to be able to offer groups of modules to a sub set of our 
> sites without having to have them installed in each 
> sites/sitename/modules folder.
> 
> Basically, there are some advanced and developer modules that 
> my more adept users need but that I would rather not be 
> available to some of our novice site managers.
> 
> Ideally, I would be able to define something in the 
> settings.php that told drupal to look in:
> 
>     sites/all/modules
>     sites/all/modules_advanced
>     sites/sitename/modules
> 
> The only possible solution that I've found would be to create 
> a custom module that defined it's own "module_rebuild_cache" 
> (maybe "extra_module_rebuild_cache" or such) that used a 
> slightly modified "drupal_system_listing" that would be able 
> to look outside of "sites/all/modules" and "sites/sitename/modules"
> 
> Does this make sense? Has anyone else come across a similar issue?
> 
> Thank you kindly,
> Justin Davis
> Liberal Arts ITS
> University of Texas at Austin
>