On Saturday, December 17, 2011 03:24:16 PM Oliver Burger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm maintaining mediawiki and drupal. > > Both packages require a php database module but both can work with mysql, > postgresql and sqlite. > > Now the mediawiki package does simply require both php-mysql and php-pgsql, > which is bad since it leads to installing unneeded database libraries in > the system. > Drupal has three sub packages which doe require the respective php database > module and one of the three is required by drupal itself, which is some > kind of ugly workarround. > > I think it would be a cleaner solution to have php-X providing something > common and php-pdo_X providing something common (X being one of mysql, > pgsql or sqlite). > > What do you think? > I tried contacting the php maintainer by mail, but he didn't answer me. > > Oliver
Could you please explain a little more what you are looking for. PHP provides the php-mysql and php-pdo-mysql -- Best regards Thomas Spuhler