From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 21:23:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06EAE1065670 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:23:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfarmer@predatorlabs.net) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA29E8FC14 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:22:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws2 with SMTP id 2so2590766vws.13 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:22:59 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.200.194 with SMTP id ex2mr2802354vcb.0.1285017777843; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.188.3 with HTTP; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:22:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [71.1.133.114] In-Reply-To: References: <20100918114500.C20F41065761@hub.freebsd.org> <20100919194813.J11124@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <4C971132.7060809@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 14:22:57 -0700 Message-ID: From: Rob Farmer To: doug@fledge.watson.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why is the PHP stuff line "off" by default in ports/lang/php5? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:23:00 -0000 On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 08:00, wrote: > I think that response was not all that unreasonable. I'm not sure if you are referring to me or ale here. > =A0 3) I think (proof left to the reader) there is an apache/php package. There's not. There's no way to run pkg_add -r and get the apache module (either that or it is poorly named and not found with a search). And, as I understand it, at one point there was, then it changed. My suggestion was to add it back via a slave port (say lang/php5-apache). This would be *in addition* to the existing lang/php5 port and everyone who is worried about unnecessary dependency bloat, security, etc. would be free to keep using that. Supposedly, there is a reason that shipping a binary package for this is impossible, despite the fact that every major Linux distribution does (and thus millions of web servers run this way) and supposedly there are many detailed descriptions of this reason in the list archives, though I can't find any. Adding the slave port was a good faith suggestion about how to improve the situation to meet everyone's needs. I feel it is rather dismissive and somewhat rude just say "The answer is simply 'no'" without any explanation. If it has been discussed so many times (for the record, I have been subscribed to this list for two years and have never seen such a thread), then it shouldn't be too hard to post a link. And if the maintainer is too busy with other work to do that, then, as I said, don't reply and let someone else explain it. --=20 Rob Farmer