From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 10 01:26:33 2012 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 383B5106566C for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:26:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 030718FC0A for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:26:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iazz13 with SMTP id z13so91851iaz.13 for ; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:26:32 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.180.233 with SMTP id dr9mr367849igc.11.1326158791470; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:26:31 -0800 (PST) Sender: aimass@yabarana.com Received: by 10.231.77.5 with HTTP; Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:26:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <07e401cccefb$364338b0$a2c9aa10$@fisglobal.com> <083a01cccf07$79fd35e0$6df7a1a0$@fisglobal.com> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 20:26:31 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Qh6vsltE4lqRfapAZtVjg5GB0c8 Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: alexus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports vs packages 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: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:26:33 -0000 On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:00 PM, alexus wrote: > Thank you so much for this wonderful feedback! > > One of the things I'm seeing is that unfortunately packages are > somewhat limited vs ports... > > For example: > > I'm trying to get Apache httpd + PHP to work, after pkg_add -r php5, > php5 doesn't have libphp5.so that links Apache and PHP together... so > unless I'm doing something entirely wrong I basically must use ports > and nothing else to get the functionality i need... > The port in lang/php52 has a build apache module option. Seems weird to me that the module is not built with the binary distro of the php52 package. It also seems weird that in the port, the apache module option is not selected by default. Maybe it's because the PHP crowd seems to have a grudge against the apache module and the maintainer follows that sentiment? What good is php52 if not to run with Apache :-) Yeah I don't like php that much, but IMHO the apache module should be selected by default if it's detected that Apache is installed on the system. Maybe you should write the port maintainer and get his take on the matter. -- Alejandro Imass > http://alexus.org/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"