On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Arno Töll <deb...@toell.net> wrote: > On 26.03.2012 21:12, Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> Is that guaranteed to work if no pkg providing httpd-php is >>> installed yet? Will apt-get pick the right httpd-php provider? >> >> No. > > And we can't do much against it for the time being. Right now apt > always picks the first alternative if nothing else has explicitly been > suggested. However, conditional recommends [1] could solve that > problem. They would be similar to USE flags on Gentoo, meaning that > people who installed a given package automatically get recommended > packages enhancing an existing package along. That's a perfect use > case for the problem we're trying to solve. > > That said, for the time being I do not think we have anything better, > so we need to deal with the problem by means available now - at least > it's much better than leaving the user without any working setup at > all. And those who do use alternative web servers - and as a > maintainer of Lighttpd I can imply that without sounding too snotty - > it's fair to assume that people who are skilled enough to use Lighttpd > or, say, nginx, can be expected to install lighttpd-php or whatever, > too or get Apache otherwise.
What about just dep: php5? php5 would pull in libapache2-mod-php5 and apache BTW, what about my earlier mail (date Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:54 PM) -- Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
