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Regarding the features module: I am working with a module which was created by features. I see a lot of .inc files in the module, but see very few actually included. Does this make any sense? I know that they are all being used and are creating fields etc.

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  • Creating fields only needs to happen once, that would probably explain why you don't see the files included - they've already been included the one time they were needed
    – Clive
    Aug 20, 2013 at 15:58
  • Oh, and how does features know about these files to include them once? Aug 20, 2013 at 16:05
  • Looks like the work is done in features_include() and features_include_defaults(), at the root of it it seems to be a simple file naming convention
    – Clive
    Aug 20, 2013 at 17:25

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Most include files exported by features are included on-demand by the modules that define that type of component. For instance, example.views_default.inc is included by the views module when loading default views. This is a common pattern in Drupal, not something that is specific to Features.

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