Re: Packages with httpd needs
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 07:34:13PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:27:42PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Package: phpgroupware
> > Depends: apache2 | apache | httpd, php5 | php5-cgi | libapache2-mod-php5 [...]
> > This doesn't force you to install apache. It just requires that you have
> > apache and php installed, which by default is going to pull in apache2 and
> > libapache2-mod-php5 if the dependency isn't previously satisfied. (The php
> > depends in this particular example are strange; it should probably depend
> > either on "php5" alone, which is a metapackage. But that doesn't change the
> > argument.)
> Actually, your statement (about requiring apache) is not strictly true.
> Lots of packages which are not apache provide httpd:
Er, yes. That should have been "It just requires that you have a webserver
and php installed".
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