field_sql_storage should depend on field module if it doesn't already. If it did, it wouldn't need to check for the existence of the {field_config} table in hook_schema().

I think this is a leftover from CCK in D6, which was both defining a static schema, then also defining dynamic schema which depended on it's own database tables (which would blow up during installing of the module itself without that check).

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swentel commented
Version: 8.x-dev » 7.x-dev

There is no field_config table anymore and the module now depends on it. Do we still need/want to fix this in D7 ?

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