On Mon, March 19, 2012 14:32, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, March 18, 2012 15:30, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >>> PMA depends on php5 and recommends httpd. Could the httpd >>> recommendation be downgraded to a suggest? >>> Having php5 available should be enough (and recommendation are >>> installed by default). >> >> I think not every alternative of php5's depends includes a httpd in >> their >> depends/recommends, so I don't think this will necessarily yield the >> desired result. >> >> It seems obvious to me that phpmyadmin needs any httpd to operate, no? >> What would we gain with removing the recommendation? > > Hoi Thijs, > > The httpd might run on another machine and use PHP via FastCGI over TCP.
I think that situation is rare enough that the current status of httpd as Recommends suffices: "The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations.". Afterall, it's easy to not install the recommendation - it's just not the default. This makes sense to me. > Having every single web app list httpd pkgs, PHP pkgs and even > www-browser doesn't seem useful to me. I agree that www-browser is not useful, but it's not in this package's dependencies :-) > Why not just depend on the php5 meta pkg? We may do this, but at least currently not all of its alternatives do come with a recommendation of httpd. And given the explanation above I also don't quite see the drawback of the current situation. Cheers, Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
