Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:29:02 -0700 From: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: patrick <gibblertron@gmail.com>, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ale@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why is the PHP stuff line "off" by default in ports/lang/php5? Message-ID: <AANLkTimjA9mfCSWDV7vUUPAp2-ORqLxEsar5_CBW=E_d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100919194813.J11124@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20100918114500.C20F41065761@hub.freebsd.org> <20100919194813.J11124@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 04:47, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 3, Issue 9, Message: 21 > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:03:46 -0700 patrick <gibblertron@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't for sure, but I'd say it's off by default because not everyone > > runs PHP with Apache, and mod_php5/libphp5.so is strictly for Apache. > > No, not everyone installs PHP to use with Apache, but I guess that maybe > half do. This comes up many times in the last 5 or so years since you > could last install the module from a package rather than only the port. > > It's also one of those ports that takes a good while to build on slower > hardware (which of course developers don't tend to run :) but no amount > of requesting a version with '"Build Apache module" on' helped so far. > > > Lots of people use PHP with FastCGI or other purposes. > > True, yet those people probably also tend to be less likely to want to > install from packages (when available) anyway. Sure, adding libphp5.so > to the (or one different?) package would add maybe 3MB to it. I'd be > happy to spend an extra few MB and minutes to save likely an hour. > > > If you always want it to be on, add the option to /etc/make.conf. Or, > > if you're using portupgrade or some other port management utility for > > upgrades, there are ways to set the default options for the ports you > > use. > > Not a problem when you have the horsepower and time to build it, but a > significant loss of ability to install apache+php from packages, as you > once could from the CDs .. guess I just got spoiled back there in the > olden days :) Adding a slave port would probably be a good solution and shouldn't be too difficult. -- Rob Farmer
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?AANLkTimjA9mfCSWDV7vUUPAp2-ORqLxEsar5_CBW=E_d>