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Package: phpmyadmin
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
PMA depends on php5 and recommends httpd. Could the httpd
recommendation be downgraded to a suggest?
Having php5 available should be enough (and recommendation are
installed by default).
Greetings,
Olaf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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On Wed, March 21, 2012 22:35, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>>> > It is possible to specify --purge along with install in that case.
>>> > Â apt-get install --purge lighttpd
>>> > If APT's package solution is okay (you agree and press 'Y') then when
>>> > apache2 is removed it will be purged and no configuration files will
>>>
>>> Why? AFAIK apache2 and lighttpd can be installed at the same time.
>>
>> The why would be if a local admin user was opposed to having apache2
>> installed at all then the install --purge combination provides a way
>> to transition from having apache2 installed to having it purged in one
>> step. Â *I* am fine with having multiple of them installed. Â I am not
>> saying that you can't have them both installed. Â But for people
>> supporting this bug as a bug that it shouldn't require apache2 but
>> should instead allow them to select lighttpd then the above is an
>> available and useful transition strategy. Â I pointed it out since I
>> don't think the knowledge that 'install --purge' is a valid and useful
>> combination is universally known.
>
> Right, but why would "apt-get install --purge lighttpd" remove apache2?
Olaf, Bob: I appreciate your 'discours' but I do observe that this is
hardly a phpMyAdmin-specific issue. Perhaps it's better to take on
Stefan's call for a revision of how web apps should depend on web servers,
as noted in this mail:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/03/msg00013.html
Perhaps that could conclude in a generic idea of what the 'ideal'
dependency looks like for a web app and this could be documented in the
web apps policy.
I don't see enough pressing reasons to change the phpmyadmin package now,
as I've outlined earlier. If something is to change, it should be a
generic advice/policy, not something specific to phpymyadmin.
Cheers,
Thijs
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