Default settings should not be put in LocalSettings.php on setup
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	• bzimport
	Mar 17 2007, 3:42 PM

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Author: lcarsdata

Description:
When setting up MediaWiki 1.9.3 the following values were put in
LocalSettings.php however they were identical to the defaults:

$wgEnableEmail
$wgEnableUserEmail
$wgEmailAuthentication
$wgDBserver
$wgDBtype
$wgDBprefix
$wgDBmysql5
$wgMainCacheType
$wgEnableUploads
$wgUseTeX
$wgLanguageCode
$wgDefaultSkin
$wgRightsPage (not identical, however similar "" and NULL)
$wgRightsUrl (not identical, however similar "" and NULL)
$wgRightsText (not identical, however similar "" and NULL)
$wgRightsIcon (not identical, however similar "" and NULL)

Having so many useless values makes LocalSettings.php difficult to read and
harder to maintain. Although in some cases it may be useful to have comments
these could be moved to a seperate text file to make reading even easier.

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Severity: trivial

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 9:40 PM

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• bzimport created this task.Mar 17 2007, 3:42 PM

robchur wrote:

These aren't useless; most of them are settings which people will want to change
out of the box. Having details about the database connection explicitly repeated
in LocalSettings.php is useful for debugging.

It's all about convenience. We aren't repeating the entire DefaultSettings.php
file, we're repeating a small subset which are useful to have in
LocalSettings.php when it comes to changing them.

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