Which user data or customization is associated with Sharepoint Server Publishing feature

Question

Hi
I want to deactivate/activate sharepoint server publishing feature but there's a warning message which says:
Any user data or customizations associated with this feature might be lost
How could I know specifically which user data will be lost after deactivating this feature?
Please note that this is "Sharepoint Server Publishing" and not "Sharepoint Server Publishing Infrastructure".  The feature I want to deactivate is a site level feature and not a site collection level feature.
Any clues may be helpfull

Answer 1

If you deactivate the Publishing Infrastructure at the site collection then any items in your Pages lists may not survive.
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/87031/what-user-data-or-customizations-will-i-lose-if-i-deactivate-and-reactivate-a-si
Generally speaking you need to check dependencies of other Features to this Feature, but also to ensure that existing functionality do not depend on any artifacts this feature could deploy (Web parts, physical files, controls, etc.).
To check if other features depend on this one you could do this by looking up the GUID of the feature in a physical folder and everywhere it appears check the FeatureDependencies element.
To identify what this feature does you would look into the Feature.xml and Elements.xml to see what artifacts it deploys, e.g. stuff deployed via Modules must be removed manually, any custom controls, web-parts, which might depend on the actual assembly
deployed by the feature will also crash.
Also, to my knowledge the SSRS site collection feature is part of the actual Enterprise features which are usually pushed-down from Central Admin when using the "Activate/Deactivate Enterprise Features on existing sites" - any farm admin would be able to
re-activate it again.
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