Disabling Categories

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I seem to remember that the option to disable / enable categories was removed from the cvs some time ago due to performance concerns.

I realise there is a mod to add this feature back, but it would be nice and better for all if it was in the cvs.

Provided I am right about the performance concerns, I have a suggestion that might resolve them....

Could the active category structure be stored in a string, within the configuration table? Whenever a change was made to the category structute within admin, this string would be updated. 

Then, when the category structure is accessed for display, the string would be retrieved from the configuration table and parsed to build the structure.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks,

Jon.