On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 16:07 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
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.
What about CPAN? That's still included in the perl package also, that's also a tool that installs perl software without pacman knowing about it. I maintain some debian machines with php on it, sometimes I need a pear module and just do "pear install <module I need>". I keep my pear installation up2date using the pear tool. The fact that apt-get overwrites them on every upgrade doesn't mean I don't use "pear upgrade-all" after that. IMHO a basic set of pear packages hould be included in the PHP package, the rest can be managed by either pear, or if the user really insists on it, pacman packages.