lang/php5 - separate apache module from php5 port

Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 23 13:33:08 UTC 2013


On 23/11/2013 13:02, Florent Peterschmitt wrote:
> Yeah, Debian's package split is nice (and not only for PHP but
> everything else). But I'm not sure if we want to make x packages we have
> to make x ports. I mean, it is very useful when distributing packages
> and I'm not sure the port system cannot make x packages from 1 only port.

It can't.  This sub-package functionality is coming, but it's not here
yet.  Conversion to staging is a pre-requisite, and I've a feeling that
old-style pkg_tools aren't going to cut it; pkgng will[*] be required.
Which means it's going to be problematic for older release branches.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

[*] almost certainly.

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