[Fedora-php-devel-list] Dependencies on php vs php-common

[Tim Jackson]

Looking at a random selection of packages I have on a machine, there are
quite a few things that depend on the "php" package. For example on an FC6
system:

# rpm -q --whatrequires php
php-pear-1.4.9-4
php-pear-DB-1.7.6-7.fc6
php-pear-PHPUnit-1.3.2-1.fc6
squirrelmail-1.4.10a-1.fc6
php-adodb-4.94-1.fc6
mantis-1.0.8-1.fc6
php-devel-5.1.6-3.6.fc6

Should these in general not be dependent on php-common rather than php,
since "php" now basically contains just Apache HTTPD-related stuff?

(php-adodb should probably also only have an indirect dep via php(abi),
which is provided by php-common; I haven't checked if that's different in
fc7/devel)

Tim