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On 11/11/2012 02:29 PM, Andras Timar wrote:
Some people consider bundled extensions as bloat, that should be
removed/integrated into core, whatever. While from the users' point
of view it does not matter. We have a checkbox to hide bundled
extensions in Extension Manager, we can make the default to hide
those. What's the difference then between an extension and a normal
feature?

Bundled extensions being extensions, they have to coexist sensibly with non-bundled (shared; per-user) ones. For example, it can happen that an extension was already installed per-user and now is also included bundled after a LO upgrade. There needs to be code that handles all that, and that code needs to be run rather early during bootstrap, and if it fails for some reason, it prominently fails during first start after upgrade. Been there, done that.

In short, potential for trouble, and amount of first-start activity, is reduced by decreasing the number of bundled extensions.

Stephan

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