In order to reduce the footprint of the agent at runtime, we want to be able to configure the plugin container to ignore certain plugins. When the agent's plugin container is told to ignore certain plugins, the PC should just not load it, thus reducing the memory footprint of the agent. Reducing the number of types to discover and manage also reduces CPU utilization of the agent.

If the PC is told to ignore a plugin that is a dependency of a unignored plugin, an error should result. You can't disable or ignore plugins that other, unignored, plugins need. The agent startup should fail in this case.