On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 03:00:16PM -0800, Sriram Natarajan wrote: > Peter > This is definitely a very valid issue and we are very much aware of it. The > best way to solve this is to deliver different PHP extensions in different > packages in the same way as is being currently done on Linux platforms. At > this point, we want to tackle the most important issue of delivering a > complete stack. Once Web Stack project adopts Image Packaging System > (http://opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg/) , we could deliver different PHP > extensions in different packages to limit unnecessary dependencies like > this.
Um, there's nothing that IPS does to solve this problem that SVr4 packages can't do for you right now. Just put the various bits into separate packages. Done. Now, if, as Peter suggested, you're building everything in as hard dependencies in the ELF objects -- i.e., PHP will refuse to run if it doesn't have everything available -- then you have a problem no packaging system will solve for you. And I strongly suggest that you make sure not to integrate with that problem. Requiring a few small things that are almost certain to be on the system anyway is probably just fine. Requiring a couple hundred megs of seriously optional stuff, not fine. Danek
