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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:08:46 +0100
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] apk-tools/dependencies question for php
From: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>
To: Cameron Banta <cbanta@gmail.com>
Cc: Alpine Developers <alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Cameron Banta <cbanta@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>
> wrote:
...
>> I can see those options:
>>
>> 1. remove the php dependency from php-dg (and all other php modules)
>> and let user handle the deps himself
>> 2. implement optional/volunteer dependencies in apk-tools. You can as
>> user do something to tell apk that we want php-gd to be a dependency
>> for php when you install php, so when php is removed php-gd goes out
>> as well.
>> 3. some other way to snap in dependencies manually afterwards. Like:
>> =A0# install php-gd and php-imap as dependencies for php
>> =A0apk add -d php php-gd php-imap
>> 4. implement 'or' in apk-tools and let php-gd depend on either 'php or
>> php-cli'
>>
>> For now i think we will go for option 1, but it would be nice to hear
>> what you think would be the optimal solution for this situation.
>>
>
> Another option similar to 4 - could we do some kind of provides? Kind of
> like openrc does.
> So php-cli would provide php. So if you installed php-gd, it would instal=
l
> php as dependency. But if you installed php-cli first, then php-gd wouldn=
't
> install anything extra because it would think php was already installed.

Yeah, i think this is what we want, "provides" functionallity.

Thanks!

--=20
Natanael Copa


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