[development] An automated way of locating unused modules?

[Carl Wiedemann]

I believe the original question is not whether a module is enabled or not
but whether an enabled module is actually being used *at all.*

It's up to the site builder to pay attention and know the purposes of each
enabled. To me this seems like is an administrative issue, rather than a
technical issue.

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Cameron Eagans <cweagans at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think you'd even need a module to do this. You can get a list of
> currently used modules by doing:
>
> SELECT name FROM system WHERE type='module' AND status='1';
>
> You could likely write a quick script to compare the list returned by that
> SQL statement to your modules list.
>
> Thanks,
> Cameron
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 12:04, James Benstead <james.benstead at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Originally posted to http://drupal.org/node/1017416:
>>
>> I have a list of 60+ modules that I download, via drush, to each new
>>> Drupal site that I build. I then enable whatever modules are needed for the
>>> specific site I'm working on as I carry out the build.
>>
>>
>>> This means that once the site is launched, there may be modules that are
>>> not being called by Drupal core but that are still enabled and/or installed.
>>
>>
>>> Is there an automated way - a specific module, for example - that will
>>> tell me which of the modules that are enabled on a site are being called by
>>> Drupal core?
>>
>>
>>> Secondly, is there any performance implication for having lots of modules
>>> installed on a site if they are not enabled?
>>
>>
>> The answer to the second question seems to be "no". And It doesn't seem
>> that such a module does exist - would it be technically possible to write
>> this module for D6?
>>
>> --Jim
>> --
>> My IM and Skype details are at http://state68.com/contact
>>
>
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