[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #5540: User roles overhaul

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#5540: User roles overhaul
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 Reporter:  tellyworth   |        Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |    Milestone:  2.5      
Component:  General      |      Version:           
 Severity:  normal       |   Resolution:           
 Keywords:  has-patch    |  
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Comment (by ryan):

 Replying to [comment:6 tellyworth]:
 > I can see one relatively simple way to handle the query-users-by-cap
 thing with this patch: Implement a find_roles_with_capability($cap_name)
 function that would return a list of roles with a given capability.  Then
 query the user_role table where role in(a, b, c).

 Yes, but retaining the ability to put caps in user_meta means not all of a
 user's caps will be in a role, correct?  But maybe that's not worth
 worrying about.  Such caps are not supported out of the box.

 Moving the roles to a separate table, implementing the functions you
 mention, and not going out of our way for caps directly associated with a
 user (without an intervening role), seems like a good-enough solution that
 removes the biggest problems with the current arrangement.

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