On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 08:51:06PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Adrian Bunk <b...@stusta.de> wrote:
> > "just httpd" would be evil:
> >
> > There are 25 (sic) packages providing httpd in Debian, and when the
> > user neither has one installed nor specifies which one to install,
> > the package manager has to pick one.
> >
> > Apache is a sane default in that case.
>
> Maybe, but should that 'decision' be duplicated in every single web pkg?
It could be done through the additional indirection of a webserver meta
package that would depend on "apache2 | httpd".
The benefits of that would be low.
> What if someday Debian decides Lighttpd should be the default?
It is easy to change dependencies.
> >> Is that guaranteed to work if no pkg providing httpd-php is installed
> >> yet? Will apt-get pick the right httpd-php provider?
> >
> > I guess that would be
> > apt-get install lighttpd-php5 the-web-app
>
> There is no lighttpd-php5 (yet).
We are discussing if it would make sense to add one.
> Olaf
cu
Adrian
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