]] Thomas Goirand > On 01/06/2012 04:34 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > > It depends which is more common > > I don't see why we would steer on the direction of the most common > thing only. What we want is something that works all the time, no? > If we remote the web server dependency, it works all the time.
No, it then breaks if you don't install the package by hand. > Don't you think that someone who can setup a PHP app, also knows > that it will need apache, and that apt-get install apache2 is quite an > easy thing to do? That argument can be taken ad absurbum quite easily. Don't you know that ssh requires libssl0.9.8g? Everybody knows that, you should just grab it by hand. > > How many of these packages do clever things upon installation like > > setup their own virtual hosts or similar? > > None, because that's forbidden by the Debian policy. Where is that forbidden? If the problem is the full overhead of apache2, just install mini-httpd or monkey or similar and then disable them. They weigh in at a few hundred k each, so shouldn't be a problem for you. Or just use equivs as other people have suggested. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
