1 day, 1 emerge --sync, 1 update later: php-7.4 is additionally installed. for a php application i would expect that 1 php version is enough. but depending on the use flag this is not the case for nextcloud and roundcube, 2 versions are installed each.
On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:44:27 -0400 Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 2021-10-20 19:23:09, zca...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > when i install nextcloud it also installs php-7.3.31 and php-7.4.24, > > this is probably due to dev-php/imagick-3.5.1 > > > > PHP is slotted, so it's not too unusual for multiple versions to be > installed at the same time. An "emerge --depclean" may later remove > the older one. But this alone is no cause for alarm. > > > > if i install roundcube with use="change-password" php-8.0.11 is > > needed. > > > > i used use="-imagemagick" for nextcloud, and > > all packages could agree on php-8.0.11. > > > > 1.if an application requires 2 different versions this can't work, > > apache only uses one or? > > No, you're right. Whichever one you've eselected (if you're using > apache's mod_php) is the one that will be used, and not all of the > options will work with every installed PHP application. It doesn't > make a ton of sense, but PHP is relatively stable these days. So, uh, > good luck. > > > > 2.if in the ebuild of dev-php/imagick-3.5.1 > > USE_PHP="php7-3 php7-4 php8-0" > > what does that mean? > > C-language extensions like pecl-imagick are compiled against PHP. The > USE_PHP variable declares which versions they may be compiled > against. Then the user-facing variable PHP_TARGETS says which ones you > want. What you ultimately get is the intersection of USE_PHP and > PHP_TARGETS. >
