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* [gentoo-dev] PHP targets
@ 2011-05-16  6:43 Dirkjan Ochtman
  2011-05-17  8:05 ` Ole Markus With
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dirkjan Ochtman @ 2011-05-16  6:43 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Gentoo Development

I just tried to update one of my systems, and the emerge -uavDN world
failed due to the requirement of php_targets_php5-2. Now, I do have
php installed on this box, but I had never set the targets so far.
Perhaps a news item or some other notification for this kind of stuff
wouldn't be out of order? Now I had to go googling for php targets. I
found the upgrading guide, but it seems kind of annoying that we don't
provide more guidance if we're going to mandate some more
configuration on the part of unsuspecting users.

Cheers,

Dirkjan



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* Re: [gentoo-dev] PHP targets
  2011-05-16  6:43 [gentoo-dev] PHP targets Dirkjan Ochtman
@ 2011-05-17  8:05 ` Ole Markus With
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ole Markus With @ 2011-05-17  8:05 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

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On 16/05/11 08:43, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> I just tried to update one of my systems, and the emerge -uavDN world
> failed due to the requirement of php_targets_php5-2. Now, I do have
> php installed on this box, but I had never set the targets so far.
> Perhaps a news item or some other notification for this kind of stuff
> wouldn't be out of order? Now I had to go googling for php targets. I
> found the upgrading guide, but it seems kind of annoying that we don't
> provide more guidance if we're going to mandate some more
> configuration on the part of unsuspecting users.
> 

Hi Dirkjan,

At the time we released the "new" PHP ebuilds, we felt that the
post-install instructions were good enough as a source of information.
This one has a warning about setting PHP_TARGETS as well as a link to
the upgrade guide. PHP_TARGETS had already been set to a sane default in
all profiles so we believed that this should be a smooth update for our
users.

And indeed, we have not had much support issues on this. All the issues
I can think of happened to users after upgrading PHP, meaning they most
definitely did not read the post-install instructions.

The worst-case is that users have to google in order to find out what
all this PHP_TARGETS business is, where they will find their answers
quite quickly

So far, I have only seen news items where stuff may actually break. In
this case it is more about not being able to upgrade because PHP_TARGETS
is not set properly, where portage gives you warning about what to do.
As I said, we have not really had much issues with this.

Cheers,
Ole Markus
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