Re: Proposed entry for next DPN [was: Re: Providing a dummy web server package in Debian (Removing web server dependencies from web apps)]
On 01/10/2012 06:03 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
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> On Lu, 09 ian 12, 14:39:03, Wookey wrote:
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>> And equivs is an incredicbly-useful well-kept secret (of which Debian
>> and GNU/Linux has many). Any suggestions for making it better known
>> would be good. This disucssion has no doubt helped a little.
>>
> Hi -publicity,
>
> This is a proposed entry for next debian-news:
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> In a message to debian-devel[1] Thomas Goirand proposed relaxing or even
> removing some dependencies of web applications on a web server package.
>
I'd agree with the above *if* you add:
because most applications written in PHP depends on libapache2-mod-php5
| php5,
which *by default*, would install a web server anyway.
I never proposed that by default, a web server shouldn't be installed.
I think it should (like everyone in this thread, I guess)! :)
> This would help users wanting to install such web applications in
> chroots, while the web server is installed only outside the chroot.
> During the following discussions several solutions were proposed,
> including dummy web server packages to be provided by Debian. It was
> pointed out that such dummy packages are actually very easy to create
> with the less known equivs[2] package.
>
By the way, I also think writing about equivs in the DPN is a good idea.
Thomas
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