[development] An automated way of locating unused modules?

[Giovani Spagnolo]

I agree with Carl it is an administrative task and should be let to site Admins, but could the modules list page feature a "last used" timestamp column to help site admins know when it was the last time a module was used?
This info could be helpful for the auditing purposes James explained in his other posting.

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Il giorno 09/gen/2011, alle ore 20:55, Carl Wiedemann <carl.wiedemann at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> 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.*
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> 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.
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> 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';
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> You could likely write a quick script to compare the list returned by that SQL statement to your modules list.
> 
> Thanks,
> Cameron
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> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 12:04, James Benstead <james.benstead at gmail.com> wrote:
> Originally posted to http://drupal.org/node/1017416:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Secondly, is there any performance implication for having lots of modules installed on a site if they are not enabled?
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> 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
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