Re: php-pear .rpm install format

I agree... There is no reason why people couldn't make rpm's for the classes (or collections of classes/the entire repository). The RPM could even just be a script which does 'pear install Blah', or you could write a bash equivalent of the pear install command. MD5 checksums could easily be added at a later point, although at the moment since all classes are downloaded from the same source, it is unlikely that they will be contaminated at source (such a thing would easilly be spotted any rectified). If downloads are contaminated through local dns spoofing, then that is another security problem (not one of PEAR's) AFAIK, pear checks for dependencies anyway Making PEAR depend on RPM in my opinion is bad because it ties PHP to linux, whereas PHP is designed to run on ALL OS's. What about using debian packaging system? (I hear its better than RPM anyway...) Mike At 13:32 03/10/2002 +0200, Alexander Merz wrote:

Ernani Joppert Pontes Martins wrote:

That's because it is more flexible to install, it checks dependencies, increase file security, etc.

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