92049 – PHP5 should be a seperate package

Bug 92049 - PHP5 should be a seperate package

Summary: PHP5 should be a seperate package

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Development (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2005-05-09 14:15 UTC by Stephan Elsner
Modified:	2005-05-09 14:20 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Stephan Elsner 2005-05-09 14:15:53 UTC

PHP5 should be a different ebuild, not another version of PHP. PHP5 is not in every case backwards compatible with php4 and scripts must often be rewritten or changed. There is also a need for installing both versions side by side, because some scripts depend on version 4, some on 5. Therefore the v5 executable can't be /usr/bin/php - /usr/bin/php5 seems to me as a good choice.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge php



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Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-09 14:20:13 UTC

We don't do such things in Gentoo, we have SLOTs for that.