Re: [gentoo-server] Need help installing Apache with PHP on our server

[Kerin Millar]

On 09/02/06, LYL <lyl+gentoo@××××.com> wrote:
> dev-lang/php is php v5.0 up, while dev-php/php is php4
>

That's not correct. Just to make it perfectly clear - *anyone* who is
currently using dev-php/{php,mod_php} in any shape or form should
migrate to dev-lang/php as soon as possible The former ebuilds are
emphatically dead and *completely* unsupported and will eventually
disappear from the portage tree! Indeed, other packages marked stable
will assume the usage of dev-lang/php. Almost anything to do with PEAR
uses a revision of the php-pear eclass which depends on dev-lang/php
for example.

However, as Christopher remarked earlier in the thread, it is
necessary to mask out php-5 if you want to stick with php-4 (for the
simple reason that php-5 is marked stable).

Further reading:

http://tinyurl.com/9qwy7
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php-upgrading.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php

I'd also suggest reading
http://svn.gnqs.org/projects/gentoo-php-overlay/wiki/CommonQuestions#DoYouRecommendAnyUSEFlags.

Further questions are best directed towards the #gentoo-php channel on freenode.

Cheers,

--Kerin

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