On Mon, March 19, 2012 18:08, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Thijs Kinkhorst <th...@debian.org> wrote: >>> 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. > > But is there a real advantage? > Are there really people that install phpmyadmin but don't have a > webserver installed and then have no clue what's wrong?
Perhaps they have a clue what to do but they would need to take another action. I think we should optimise for the default case to work well and with as few steps as possible. >>> 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 :-) > > Isn't it suggested? http://packages.debian.org/sid/phpmyadmin It is, it was originally higher but I downgraded it when I took over maintenance. Having it removed or in Suggests are both fine with me since Suggests is more 'documentation' than anything technical. >>> 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. > > I wanted to install phpmyadmin and was surprised it wanted to pull in > apache2. > It's not a real problem, it just struck me as odd. Especially since I > intended to use Lighttpd. Apache2 is indeed the default web server. However, I think your scenario just works if you either have lighttpd already installed or if you specify phpmyadmin and lighttpd both on the command line. Cheers, Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
