Removing dep for httpd from php?

[Matthias Saou]

Stefan Neufeind wrote :

> I was wondering if removing the dep for httpd inside package php might
> be justified? Seen that in FC4 - and I guess it's in FC5 as well.
> 
> When running a server without a webserver installed, you can perfectly
> install/use php anyhow. So why is that dep needed? Is there a chance to
> get it removed on the next release? :-)

I'd also like to see that happen, but it has already been filed in
bugzilla as a RFE, but got closed as WONTFIX "for the time being".

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177821

Time to start discussing it again?

In my case, I'm using php through fastcgi with lighttpd more and more,
with stunning performance where scripts output very big web pages or for
websites with lots of static content. On servers configured that way, I'd
like to avoid having httpd installed entirely in order to avoid any
possible confusion (like doing "service httpd restart" by habit instead of
"service lighttpd restart"). Not a strong point, definitely, but still,
having apache being mandatory when using php doesn't make that much sense
originally.

Matthias

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