On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 17:52, Pierre Schmitz<pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Hi all,
I just wondered if we should just remove pear from our php package. Pear is a package manager for php and as such bypasses pacman. Using pear is not a great idea imho; you might have conflicts on php updates and files that are not tracked by pacman. (using -f might break things here)
People who still want to use pear instead of pacman could provide a PKGBUILD in AUR for this.
What do you think?
And btw: pear itself does not seem of "high quality"; did anyone try it with E_ALL|E_STRICT etc.?
This sounds reasonable to me. PEAR classes could/should be packaged it is the case with perl/python/ruby/lua/etc. packages BTW I've never had to use PEAR in any of PHP projects I do at my job, I wonder how broad its usage among PHP developers is. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)