[Fedora-packaging] PHP packaging policy notes

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Mon Jul 3 13:54:14 UTC 2006


>>>>> "TJ" == Tim Jackson <lists at timj.co.uk> writes:

TJ> Not sure if I'm on my own here, but this seems like a lot of
TJ> namespace clutter for little benefit.  What's the problem with
TJ> "yum install php-pear-FOO"?

I believe spot's reasoning was that we don't want
users to have to know whether what they want is in a PEAR or PECL
module.  I'm not sure it's worth the inevitable namespace collision.

 - J<




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