Bug 92049

Summary:	PHP5 should be a seperate package
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stephan Elsner <stephan.elsner>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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



Expected Results:  
n.a.

n.a.

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.