All it does is to override the home topic name in the oops redirect after the web is created. It never seems to be used.

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well, it could be used in some TWikiApplications (no, really, it could be), so i'm hesistant to remove it. however, the code can be made easier to follow:

Index: Manage.pm
===================================================================
--- Manage.pm   (revision 6719)
+++ Manage.pm   (working copy)
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
     }
     $baseWeb = TWiki::Sandbox::untaintUnchecked( $baseWeb );

-    my $newTopic = $query->param( 'newtopic' ) || '';
+    my $newTopic = $query->param( 'newtopic' ) || $TWiki::cfg{HomeTopicName};
     # SMELL: check that it is a valid topic name?
     $newTopic = TWiki::Sandbox::untaintUnchecked( $newTopic );

@@ -222,8 +222,6 @@
     }

     # everything OK, redirect to last message
-    $newTopic = $TWiki::cfg{HomeTopicName} unless( $newTopic );
-
     throw TWiki::OopsException
       ( 'attention',
         web => $newWeb,

SVN:6753

on a related note, i'm not sure what the purpose of $topicName is. it's only used to check permissions to create the web. seems like someting like $TWiki::cfg{HomeTopicName} could be used equally well (and $topicName is probably always defaulting to $TWiki::cfg{HomeTopicName} anyway). i guess it's just there because it's a "standard" parameter.

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