Hello everyone, While building a few packages, I noticed that while some already have learned that there are more web-servers out there than just apache, some still pull in apache without leaving the user a choice. As I am using nginx myself, instead of Apache, this is a really annoying thing. Some packages have already adopted to this, and offer option to leave apache out of the picture. Examples for this are www/drupal www/wordpress An example of forcing the apache is mail/roundcube My suggestion to a general solution to this problem is to introduce some kind of "global option", like this: PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS= apache for including apache (could be default), and PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS= -apache for excluding it. All packages that think they require a web-server then should honor this. It's kind of apache-specific, because apache seems to be the one server that is generally the server of choice for all packages, opposite to lighttpd, nginx and whatever other server is out there. I do understand that a web-server should be included in these packages, but I dislike being unable to tell the package "let this be my own concern" or "Look, I am using this web-server, be satisfied with that". What do you think? Volkmar -- http://www.dimensionv.de/ http://tech.nifelheim.info/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - OpenPGP Fingerprint: E03D 33DB B409 2E99 C2DA 7D64 145F 0A76 D252 7078 Key: http://www.dimensionv.de/pgp (+ all public key-servers) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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