On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:42 AM, James Rayner<iphitus@iphitus.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:52 AM, 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.?
Unless it's an issue, not building, or otherwise broken (ie a technical reason), I'd say leave it in. We've got easy_install for python, cpan for perl, etc.
It's up to the users to decide whether to use pacman or otherwise - not our responsiblility.
I think I agree with James here. What about the people who WANT to use PEAR? I know there are some people who prefer easy_install for python.