On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Felix Kaechele wrote: > Hi there, > > I had a short glimpse at the review request for dojo (#609817) today and > saw that it explicitly requires httpd. Well, dojo is a collection of > static JavaScript files so I feel that there is no reason why it should > require httpd explicitly as I don't see what special features of Apache > it needs. > That led me to run a repoquery --whatrequires httpd and from that I > found out that many webapps that we package in Fedora explicitly require > httpd. In Fedora we have a meta-provides 'webserver' that should be used > instead. Especially if there is no real reason to explicitly use httpd > instead. > But as many of those webapps bring their own Apache configuration files > for an out of the box experience I wonder how we could remedy this. > Lighttpd and nginx for example have a conf.d directory, too, and maybe > we could move webserver specific configuration to subpackages. Cherokee, > unfortunately, lacks such option at the moment. > > Any comments or ideas on this topic? > Does it have apache config files? I still don't know that that is justification for requiring httpd instead of webserver, but it might add a little bit to the conversation. -Toshio
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