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Variables list to exclude from cache / export

Project:Strongarm
Version:7.x-2.x-dev
Component:Code
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active

Issue Summary

There are certain cases where it just doesnt make sense for a variable to be exported to code or cached somewhere other than in the variables table itself.

It would be pure awesome if there were a way to specify a list of variables that should NEVER be exported or cached... and also, completely hidden when building/exporting settings using the Features UI.

Here is one such case from comment #55 on #1094598-55: Performance issues from strongarm_init().

We were having issues with cron thinking it was still running for along time, but there was no cron_semaphore variable. We finally found strongarm setting $GLOBALS['conf']['cron_semaphore'] ...