Remove components from a feature using Drush

Question

Using Features UI to manage a big feature components is a tedious task.

Therefore in order to add a new component I use

drush fe myfeature views_view:myview1

Now how I remove the uneeded component myview2?

From the UI this operation is illustrated as below, I want to remove the conflicted community_content with clone_of_community_content:

The view:

Answer 1

Remove the component by deleting the corresponding line in your feature's .info file. Then run:

$ drush fu <feature_name>

In your case:

1. Open the file /sites/all/<features_folder>/myfeature/myfeature.info.

2. Delete the following line.

   features[views_view][] = myview2

3. Save the file.

4. Run $ drush fu myfeature in your site's folder.

Answer 2

There's no direct drush command (Drupal 7.31 & Drush version 6.3.0 and never heard such a thing for drush verson 7.x) to disable/remove an component. If you only want to remove the component, then you should do it with features UI.

But if you want to delete a field (for example), there how I do with drush :

1. First be sure that your field is not use in a custom module. (If necessary you will have to adjust your code)
2. Then let's ask drush to delete the field : drush field-delete field_website
3. Small check if field was really delete : drush field-info fields | grep field_website
4. And just recreate the features where you field was included : drush fu myfeature
5. If you are using git you can also check that your change make sense (I assume that you know how to use cd or relativ/absolut path) : git diff myfeature

Hope that help.