On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:21:27PM +0100, Tim Jackson wrote: > Looking at a random selection of packages I have on a machine, there are > quite a few things that depend on the "php" package. For example on an FC6 > system: > > # rpm -q --whatrequires php > php-pear-1.4.9-4 > php-pear-DB-1.7.6-7.fc6 > php-pear-PHPUnit-1.3.2-1.fc6 > squirrelmail-1.4.10a-1.fc6 > php-adodb-4.94-1.fc6 > mantis-1.0.8-1.fc6 > php-devel-5.1.6-3.6.fc6 > > Should these in general not be dependent on php-common rather than php, > since "php" now basically contains just Apache HTTPD-related stuff? > > (php-adodb should probably also only have an indirect dep via php(abi), > which is provided by php-common; I haven't checked if that's different in > fc7/devel) Agreed that PECL packages should only have dependencies on the virtual provides. php-pear packages may have some dependency on PHP language versions; not sure about this one. e.g. for something like squirrel it probably is correct since it's a webapp and is only set up to work out of the box with httpd + the PHP Apache SAPI. joe _______________________________________________ Fedora-php-devel-list mailing list Fedora-php-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-php-devel-list
