php deps on postgresql-libs?

[Hans Kristian Rosbach]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 14:03 +0100, Rob Andrews wrote:
> On 11-May-2006 12:51.07 (BST), Hans Kristian Rosbach wrote:
>  > This is way overkill for my situation, but what really
>  > makes me wonder is why php depends on postgresql-libs.
>  > I thought I had to install php-pgsql for that...?
> 
> It's the apr-util package that requires postgresql-libs. A side effect of
> php requiring httpd is that httpd requires apr and apr-util, which
> brings in the other dependancies.

Ah, of course. Sorry about that.

This allergy is taking away all my energy, I should have thought about
looking at the dependancy tree. I want the winter back!

> The debian php packages separate the apache 1.3, apache 2.x and CLI SAPI
> modules into separate packages. Even if it's a WONTFIX, it shouldn't be
> too much work to shift /usr/bin/php into a php-cli and the
> /usr/lib/httpd/libphp4.so module into a php-apache package and turn the
> 'php' package into a metapackage to satisfy dependancies.

That would be a nice solution.

-HK