Re: Bootstrapping PEAR for distros
| From: | Justin Patrin | Date: | Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:20:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Bootstrapping PEAR for distros | ||
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On 4/14/06, Lukas Smith <lsmith@php.net> wrote:
> Justin Patrin wrote:
>
> > Ummm...excuse me? PEAR handles dependencies exceddingly well. Of
> > course, it can't download and install PHP extensions for you, but
> > that's not too hard to do. You could even add an extension to PEAR to
> > install these extensions via RPM.
>
> The point that Tim tries to make is that many users want to use a single
> package management tool. This will obviously not be PEAR.
>
> However I would assume that whatever ebuild, RPM script is running will
> use the PEAR installer internally in order to handle whatever magic
> replacement actions, file placement etc people do is handled accordingly.
>
This would be my hope, but it doesn't sound like it from what the
others have said. Then again, perhaps I'm missing the part where they
run the pre/post install and replacement tasks with the PEAR installer
from their scripts.
--
Justin Patrin