Re: Question wrt dual-PEAR

Alan Knowles wrote: > Why not make the debian installer a wrapper to the pear install command? > Alot of this seems like it is making a simple problem into a complex > one. > > something like > Files: > thepackage.tgz > > postinst: > call a small php script that uses pear libs to determine: > - is it installed already (in which case just sync debians db) > - otherwise - run pear install.. / upgrade > > dependancies: extract from file somehow (based on the makerpm code?) it's ugly because it breaks dpkg -l for example ... but I suggest sth not that different : http://www.madism.org/debian.pear.php and the discussiont between /usr/share/pear /usr/share/php is pointless IMHO (at least wrt the problem I have) -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O OOO http://www.madism.org