Re: Question wrt dual-PEAR

MadCoder wrote: > 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) hmm I only read half of the mail ... the wrapper is indeed a good idea. (PS: I can't find who spoke about dh-make-perl : i really want to write such a thing, but it's independant of pear, and we cannot expect users to be smart and to use it on their own. whereas we can document a pear makedeb option very well and expect the user to actually use it.) well, I'll talk of all the good Idea you have with other debian maintainers. and I hope we'll find a good solution to this ;D btw, /usr/bin/pear is already a wrapper in debian -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O OOO http://www.madism.org