[RFC] Remove the *.class parameters

[takeit]

Here is an issue describing why it was done: symfony/symfony#11881

All services in core define their classes as parameters. The convention is to create a foo.class parameter for the class of the foo service. This approach comes with several problems:

The parameters are dumped like any other one in the compiled class and it makes the file larger for no good reasons (read: it slows down your app for free).

When someone wants to change a service, just changing the class name is rarely enough: the new service probably have some different constructor arguments, ... Or put another way, overriding a service by just changing the class name of a service is a very rare use case.

Of course, if several bundles change the value of such a parameter, the "last" definition wins. Classic inheritance vs composition problem.

For all these reasons, I like to remove all those parameters for Symfony 3.0.

On a side note, it's now possible to easily replace a service by decorating it (see symfony/symfony#9003).

There is also a script that Fabien used to do it (for xml files) symfony/symfony#14070 (comment)

All those parameters have been removed already in Symfony 3.0.

[ahilles107]

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