[Fedora-packaging] PHP packaging policy notes

[Tim Jackson]

Christopher Stone wrote:

> On 7/2/06, Christopher Stone <chris.stone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/30/06, Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > Why should a PEAR package for foo provide php-foo?  Not sure that's a
>> > good idea.
>>
>> I'm not sure this is a good idea either, and I'm not sure of why it's
>> part of the PHP packaging guidelines.
>>
> Okay, I found out why:
> 
> [17:31] <spot> but where there is no name conflict
> [17:31] <spot> each package should Provide: php-FOO = %{version}-%{release}
> [17:31] <spot> this way, we should catch the yum install php-FOO case

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

Tim