On 01/10/2012 06:03 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > [Reply-To: set to -publicity] > > On Lu, 09 ian 12, 14:39:03, Wookey wrote: > >> And equivs is an incredicbly-useful well-kept secret (of which Debian >> and GNU/Linux has many). Any suggestions for making it better known >> would be good. This disucssion has no doubt helped a little. >> > Hi -publicity, > > This is a proposed entry for next debian-news: > > In a message to debian-devel[1] Thomas Goirand proposed relaxing or even > removing some dependencies of web applications on a web server package. > I'd agree with the above *if* you add: because most applications written in PHP depends on libapache2-mod-php5 | php5, which *by default*, would install a web server anyway.
I never proposed that by default, a web server shouldn't be installed. I think it should (like everyone in this thread, I guess)! :) > This would help users wanting to install such web applications in > chroots, while the web server is installed only outside the chroot. > During the following discussions several solutions were proposed, > including dummy web server packages to be provided by Debian. It was > pointed out that such dummy packages are actually very easy to create > with the less known equivs[2] package. > By the way, I also think writing about equivs in the DPN is a good idea. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f0d85eb.6050...@debian.org
