On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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? > > Perhaps they have a clue what to do but they would need to take another > action. I think we should optimise for the default case to work well and > with as few steps as possible.
Maybe, but you also don't want to do this work for every single PHP app pkg. It's essentially a code duplication issue. >>>> Having every single web app list httpd pkgs, PHP pkgs and even >>>> www-browser doesn't seem useful to me. >> 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. > > Apache2 is indeed the default web server. However, I think your scenario > just works if you either have lighttpd already installed or if you specify > phpmyadmin and lighttpd both on the command line. Yeah, in that case it'd work just fine. Unless I hit Enter and install Apache by accident. -- Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
