On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Pierre Schmitz<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just wondered if we should just remove pear from our php package. Pear is a > package manager for php and as such bypasses pacman. Using pear is not a great > idea imho; you might have conflicts on php updates and files that are not > tracked by pacman. (using -f might break things here) > > People who still want to use pear instead of pacman could provide a PKGBUILD > in AUR for this. > > What do you think? > > And btw: pear itself does not seem of "high quality"; did anyone try it with > E_ALL|E_STRICT etc.?
Unless it's an issue, not building, or otherwise broken (ie a technical reason), I'd say leave it in. We've got easy_install for python, cpan for perl, etc. It's up to the users to decide whether to use pacman or otherwise - not our responsiblility.
