On page 16 onward you state
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If you completed the my.cnf configuration section then it is safe to ignore the lines in red text.
I think you are more likely to create confusion here because your settings for my.cnf come from Cacti's setup recommendations which could change based on server's specs, correct me if I'm wrong.
OR if you insist on your way...after you setup my.cnf instruct the users to restart mariadb so when the user gets to the installation wizard all those recommendation will NOT appear in red

BUT again, it's not like you're guessing (are you?) what parameters to change and what values to set so I'd stick to follow Cacti's installation process and recommend the user to make the changes suggest by Cacti.
Also when you mention plugins and those that have been absorbed to Cacti's core, there are others that Cacti officially supports and maintains as well and those can be found on github.
https://github.com/cactiHopefully one day they'll sort out the plugin and templates section which is a bit broken for new users to post.
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