On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]> wrote: >> The httpd might run on another machine and use PHP via FastCGI over TCP. > > I think that situation is rare enough that the current status of httpd as > Recommends suffices: "The Recommends field should list packages that would > be found together with this one in all but unusual installations.". > Afterall, it's easy to not install the recommendation - it's just not the > default. This makes sense to me.
But is there a real advantage? Are there really people that install phpmyadmin but don't have a webserver installed and then have no clue what's wrong? >> Having every single web app list httpd pkgs, PHP pkgs and even >> www-browser doesn't seem useful to me. > > I agree that www-browser is not useful, but it's not in this package's > dependencies :-) Isn't it suggested? http://packages.debian.org/sid/phpmyadmin >> Why not just depend on the php5 meta pkg? > > We may do this, but at least currently not all of its alternatives do come > with a recommendation of httpd. And given the explanation above I also > don't quite see the drawback of the current situation. I wanted to install phpmyadmin and was surprised it wanted to pull in apache2. It's not a real problem, it just struck me as odd. Especially since I intended to use Lighttpd. -- Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
