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EXT - Extension manager configuration

The following configuration variables can be used to configure settings for the Extension manager:

Attention

Extension specific configuration should be stored in $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXTENSION'] and not here.

Note

The configuration values listed here are keys in the global PHP array $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXT'].

This variable can be set in one of the following files:

excludeForPackaging , Type: list

excludeForPackaging

Type: list
Path: $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXT']['excludeForPackaging']
Default: '(?:\\.(?!htaccess$).*|.*~|.*\\.swp|.*\\.bak|node_modules|bower_components)'

List of directories and files which will not be packaged into extensions nor taken into account otherwise by the Extension Manager. Perl regular expression syntax!