[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10201: Switch roles to use single role, and no user-specific caps

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#10201: Switch roles to use single role, and no user-specific caps
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 Reporter:  Denis-de-Bernardy  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement        |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Role/Capability    |     Version:  2.8
 Severity:  normal             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  early              |
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Comment (by scribu):

 ryan_b: the reason we have roles and not individual capabilities is
 because, for a site with 1 million users, for example, you would end up
 with a table with over 10 million rows on average, versus 1 million role
 meta_keys.

 Not to mention that, if you wanted to add a capability to one class of
 users, you would have to add that many rows to the already huge table. The
 same for deleting a capability.

 Roles are here to stay.

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