Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: Apache "-D PHP5" needs update to "-D PHP"

[Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>]

On 01/04/2016 11:11 AM, Peter Stuge wrote:
>
> So pkg_postinst for >=eselect-php-0.8.1 should say something, but
> ideally also the invocation - but I don't know if eselect-php is also
> code or only data managed by eselect?

The pkg_postinst is already there. The eselect-php routines are bash
code so theoretically we can do anything we want. How do people feel
about making eselect-php spit out a warning every time the apache2
module is messed with?


>>
>> Which init script?
> 
> For Apache.
> 
>> You don't want to e.g. kill working php-5.x installations for people
>> who have apache keyworded ~arch.
> 
> IMO that would be a much lesser evil than serving source in another
> case, as long as it is clear how to unkill (sed s,PHP5,PHP,) the setup.
> 

It wouldn't be that simple; at the very least, those people would have
to keyword eselect-php, upgrade it, run it, and fix their config. To do
that properly would make eselect-php a dependency of the new apache, and
that's wrong.