Re: Re: package.xml: Should all deps for php <=4.2.0 be removed?

On 8 Mar 2004 at 18:30, Jan Schneider wrote: > Zitat von Klaus Guenther <klaus@capitalfocus.org>: > > > From: "Stefan Neufeind" <stefan@neufeind.net> > >> Since PEAR itself depends on php >= 4.2.0, do you think that we > >> maybe should remove all deps for any php-version <= 4.2.0 since > >> this is already implicitly done? imho this way we could try to keep > >> the package-deps as low as possible (without any negative impact at > >> all), which has always been a concern in the PEAR community. > > > > Well, it seems to me that this particular dependency may be quite > > useful to those poor souls who are forced to use php > 4.2.0. This > > way they can see that a package can still be used when manually > > installed. > > Beside that they can still use their old pre-1.3-pear to install this > package. Oh my God ... hmm ... yes they can - I must admit :-)) Okay, so maybe we should demand adding a php-dep to *every* package? Stefan