On 2016-01-06, Peter Hessler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016 Jan 05 (Tue) at 05:20:07 +0000 (+0000), Stuart Henderson wrote: >:On 2016-01-05, Jordon <[email protected]> wrote: >:> Next, I think I need to get php working. This is where I get stuck. An >email >:> posted here last month mentioned getting php_fpm running, but that package >is >:> not installed on my machine. If that is a requirement for racktables, >:> shouldn't pkg_add install it? >: >:Whether or not php-fpm is a requirement depends on which webserver software >:you use. It's needed for nginx and the httpd from base, but isn't needed for >:Apache httpd. >: > > Since it is mandatory for base-httpd, I would recommend adding php-fpm as > a run-depend.
Given that there are 75-odd packages using PHP it doesn't make sense to change this dependency on an individual port basis. Perhaps it would make more sense to move php-fpm to the main PHP package, though a simple comment like "install the php-fpm package to use this" in examples/httpd.conf would improve things (at least for people who notice the /etc/examples dir). (side-note: "what are all these different httpds and how do I use php?" might make a good faq entry)..
