Magento - Is it okay to disable Mage_Downloadable?

Question

In our Magento store we do not use any downloadable products and don't plan to. Is it okay to completely disable the Mage_Downloadable module without causing any issues in the store? I see no reason to spend processing time calling the observers and running code that will never get used...

Answer 1

Run find in path in any ide in \app\etc\modules for Mage_Downloadable. If no one your installed extension depends on it - you can disable it. If some module depends - you will find xml file with

<depends>
...
    <Mage_Downloadable />
...
</depends>

inside.