From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 04:20:37 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E9A1065673; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 04:20:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B88014FF16; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 04:20:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F067693.1020407@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:20:35 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ale@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD ports list X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Feasibility of splitting out web components of lang/php5 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:20:37 -0000 I do package build systems that support a variety of types of end systems. (Nearly) all of them use php in some form or another, but a substantial portion of them don't have web servers, and therefore don't need the cgi, apache module, or the apache dependency that comes with them. What would make my life a whole lot simpler is if lang/php5 were the command line version, and the cgi and apache modules were separate ports. Is this feasible? Doug -- You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/