Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/Extension management with Composer/A way to disable extensions/reply (12)

Sure, I can think of two obvious examples: running a wiki farm, and debugging one's own installation. In both cases, the admin might want to disable extensions in any combination - well, almost any, barring of course extensions that depend on another. As far as I know, there's no way to do that currently with Composer; so for the debugging, one would have to keep re-installing different combinations, while for the wiki farm you'd have to literally have a different set of code for each possible combination - annoying if you have more than one extension, untenable if you have more than, say, three. That's not to mention the difficulty it would place on maintaining any local changes to the code.

Also, can you explain in what way my proposed system would undermine things?