What is the best way to remove features from Pinax?

[Andy]

I've cloned a social_project.

There're some features I don't need for my project. If I want to
remove a feature (eg. "bookmarks") what's the best way to do it?

From a broader angle, for this project I mostly need Pinax's profile &
messaging features. Should I start with social_project and remove all
the unneeded features or should I start with a more bareboned project
and add profile & messaging?

[ptone]

While not a thorough approach (ie - the apps and DB tables are still
installed) - I do think the easiest way is to comment out lines in the
URL conf, and then comment out the parts of the template that refer to
those functions.

I'm slowly investigating whether there is any way to automate this -
or at least document how to do it more thoroughly.

-Preston

[Harley Bussell]

If you want to remove features from the social project its best to
also comment out the apps from installed apps.
As well as what ptone mentioned, removing the entries from urls.py and
the template.

Id rather just start with a bare project and add the bits that i
needed. You have to change less in the project and its easy to see
any app specific settings you might need from the social project.