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Some extensions are already installed after configuring extensions dir?
September 13, 2013, 04:35:38 pm
I needed to use the Relationship Permissions as ACLs extension, so I started by setting up my extensions dir.  As soon as I did that, I have about 15 extensions already installed and enabled.

I inherited this site, so maybe they were installed at one point and then had been inactive, possibly as a result of not setting the directory again after some major site updates.

First, I'd like to know if this is normal.  Should you get a number of extensions by default just from setting up the dir?

Is this likely to cause any problems or unexpected changes on the site?

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Re: Some extensions are already installed after configuring extensions dir?
September 13, 2013, 04:54:50 pm
Quote from: mortona2k on September 13, 2013, 04:35:38 pm
First, I'd like to know if this is normal.  Should you get a number of extensions by default just from setting up the dir?

If you do a fresh installation on 4.x, then no - there wouldn't be any extensions enabled by default.

If you use v4.3+ and install a fresh copy with the developer's version of CiviCRM (ie using "git" instead of the normal "tar.gz" or "zip"), then you may notice that some extensions are *available* by default, but they wouldn't be installed/activated.

Quote from: mortona2k on September 13, 2013, 04:35:38 pm
Is this likely to cause any problems or unexpected changes on the site?

It's hard to say. Your theory sounds reasonable -- i.e. that a previous admin enabled the extensions but then unconfigured the whole extension system (either accidentally or intentionally). If the site has been running like this for a while, then it's probably safer to disable all the extensions than to leave them all enabled, but that's an extremely crude guess. Really one would need to look at each extension individually and decide if it's useful for the site.
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