Although, In Harry's defence I'd like to point out that using tasksel for a LAMP installation does at least give you a choice of apache2 or lightpd. So, php should not really be dragging anything in as a 'depends'. Those wishing to install LAMP can do so quite easily.
Regards, Phill. On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hello Harry, > > Harry Strongburg [2010-08-13 4:55 +0000]: > > I found out why though, it's packaged with php5, which is also > > pretty stupid to do. If a user installs PHP, they should also > > install any httpd they want. Not Apache automatically. > > php5 installs everything related to PHP, which includes the web server > module. If you only want the command line interpreter, but none of the > web stuff, just install php5-cli instead. But I dare to claim that > most people who want PHP actually want it as a web server platform. > > Martin > > -- > Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de > Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss >
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