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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] php different version
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 23:53:31
Message-Id: YXCr8tzAfrGPBBq1@stitch
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] php different version by zcampe@gmail.com
1 On 2021-10-21 00:53:55, zcampe@×××××.com wrote:
2 >
3 > 1 day, 1 emerge --sync, 1 update later: php-7.4 is additionally
4 > installed. for a php application i would expect that 1 php version is
5 > enough. but depending on the use flag this is not the case for
6 > nextcloud and roundcube, 2 versions are installed each.
7
8 If some application pulls in dev-lang/php when 7.3 is stable, you'll
9 get 7.3. Then if later php-7.4 is marked stable, 7.4 will also be
10 installed, alongside the existing 7.3 that is probably no longer
11 needed afterwards.