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Le Sam 12 avr 03 à  3:49:00 +0200, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
 écrivait :
> dirk@ seems to have disappeared, so I thought I'd think aloud here.
> 
> It's quite obvious that the decision to retire lang/php4 was
> shortsighted. But that's not the only problem with PHP(-related) ports
> IMO. Another sore is that PEAR depends on mod_php4, leading to
> absurdities like this one:
> 
> Port:   pear-Console_Getopt-1.0
> Path:   /usr/ports/devel/pear-Console_Getopt
> Info:   PEAR command-line option parser
> Maint:  ports@FreeBSD.org
> Index:  devel www
> B-deps: apache-1.3.27_4 expat-1.95.6_1 mod_php4-4.3.1 mysql-client-3.23.55 pear-install-4.3.0
> R-deps: apache-1.3.27_4 expat-1.95.6_1 mod_php4-4.3.1 mysql-client-3.23.55 pear-install-4.3.0

Dirk had tried to separate PHP & PEAR, but it was not easy, and many
people were waiting for 4.3.1.

See
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=2294811+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-ports/20030112.freebsd-ports>
for the complete story.

Regards,
-- 
Th. Thomas.