So...you know enough to run your ISP on Gentoo (at least I'd hope so), but you
think that the ebuilds being removed from portage will mean you can no longer
have php4? If you really want to keep it, stick the ebuilds in an overlay and
stop complaining.
Gentoo is removing the php4 ebuilds from the tree, because it won't be
security-supported by upstream very shortly. Gentoo doesn't have the manpower to
do security backports and such....we just bump to the next version. Until you're
paying to use Gentoo, please don't complain about how the distro does things.
Especially when the complaint it "stupid".
Yves Thommes wrote:
i suppose we're not the only isp running gentoo and hosting sites like
this, and ezpublish is just an example, there are other cms/ecommerce
systems which don't run on php5. so please, just mask the php4 ebuilds
if you have to, but please don't remove them completely from portage.
thanks
A. Khattri wrote:
How ironic: Gentoo masks PHP4 because of a bunch of bugs and force a
lot of people to upgrade to PHP5. Then the PHP devs bring out bug
fixes for PHP4. So if we had waited we wouldn't have gone through the
pain of upgrading servers to PHP5...
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