Re: [gentoo-user] Slotted PHP behavior

[Grant]

>> Thank you, that fixed it.  I'm getting some errors in squirrelmail but
>> functionality seems to be intact.
>>
>> Since things seem to be working with php-5.3.4, how can I get rid of
>> the older version of php that must be installed in another slot?  I'm
>> hoping that simplifies things a bit.  PHP on Gentoo just got more
>> complicated and all I need out of it is squirrelmail.  Actually, I
>> wish there was a decent webmail client that didn't depend on PHP at
>> all so I could remove it.
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
> The slotting is just for major versions, so you probably don't have two
> installed (you most likely went from 5.3.3 to 5.3.4).

You're right.

> But watch out -- after the eselect, you'll need to move your php.ini
> from e.g. /etc/php/apache2 to /etc/php/apache2-php5.3.

Here I get confused.  I believe a "development version" of php.ini was
installed to /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/php.ini.  It included a
development value for error_reporting which I needed to change to the
production value in order to prevent squirrelmail from triggering many
error messages.  At this point I have my old php.ini (which I don't
think I ever edited) and the new development version of php.ini for
5.3.4.  I did a diff between them and there are about 15 chunks of
difference.  The problem is I'm not sure which changes are due to the
5.3.3->5.3.4 switch and which are due to the fact that it's a
development version of the config file.  What I'd like to do is run a
default 5.3.4 production php.ini but I don't know how to come up with
that.

What is gained by this new extra layer for PHP on Gentoo?  I was happy
when it behaved like every other ebuild and I could use etc-update
along with -5 and I didn't have to bother with eselect.

- Grant