>> SUNWphp52root -> delivers php 5.2.x core configuration files >> SUNWphp52core -> delivers PHP 5.2.x runtime files as well as headers >> SUNWphp52man -> delivers PHP man pages > > What is the need for all these packages? Why can't it simply be SUNWphp52 > containing all of the above? Simplify as much as possible (but no more ;-)
Originally, I believe Stefan's rationale was that some PHP folks just wanted the core PHP in order to get it working with Apache. That's why I left the boundary alone for 2008.05 but I don't know how useful it really is. > (The doc package makes sense separately since it's so big and most > people don't need that content on their server.) Right and since we don't support yet in IPS the ability to filter on that sort of attribute. dsc