Re: Prefixing PHP packages with ${PHP_PKG_PREFIX}

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 09:41:26AM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote:
> There are a lot of programs that are written in perl but do not need a prefix-
> percona-toolkit is a great example.
> 
> ditto python-
> hellanzb
> 
> Why should php be any different?  libs should be prefixed, programs should not.
> A web-app (magento) is a little more tricky but (imho) *should* be
> prefixed since
> it is not unreasonable that i may need to run php55-magento AND php56-magento.

We don't try to accomodate multiple Perl versions. Multiple Python
versions tend to coexist nicely. PHP is good for neither.

Joerg