ports/86098: [PATCH] devel/pear-PEAR/Makefile.common: allow use by foreign packages

[Roman Neuhauser]

The following reply was made to PR ports/86098; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser at sigpipe.cz>
To: Antonio Carlos Venancio Junior <antonio at php.net>
Cc: freebsd-ports-bugs at FreeBSD.org, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,
	Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: ports/86098: [PATCH] devel/pear-PEAR/Makefile.common: allow use by foreign packages
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 00:44:12 +0200

 # antonio at php.net / 2005-09-14 19:15:46 -0300:
 > Roman Neuhauser wrote:
 > ># antonio at php.net / 2005-09-14 18:14:16 -0300:
 > >
 > >>	SimpleTest isn't a PEAR package and I don't think it's a good idea 
 > >>	have "alien" packages using Makefile.common.
 > >
 > >    Why?
 > 
 > 	Because it's not part of the PEAR PHP Framework.
 
     Is there a *technical* reason?
 
 > The author should follow the formal proposal process 
 > (http://pear.php.net/manual/en/newmaint.proposal.php) to have his 
 > package added to the framework.
 
     No, there's just no reason. That's like saying that people shouldn't
     create packages for use with pkg_add unless the ports are in FreeBSD
     proper. pear.php.net supports alien packages, see the bottom of
     http://pear.php.net/packages.php
 
 > 	Try to have a look at devel/beautifyphp.
  
     Anything particular to look for?
 
 > >> Besides that, this port should not install files inside
 > >> /usr/local/share/pear ...
 > >
 > >
 > >    Ok, where does pear(1) normally put e. g. Horde when you install it
 > >    using their package.xml files?
 > 
 > 	The Horde port installs its required PEAR packages via RUN_DEPENDS. 
 
     Ignore ports for a while. Go to http://pear.php.net/channels/,
     follow the link to http://pear.horde.org/, and install Horde_VFS
     using the procedure described there, which is:
 
     pear install http://pear.horde.org/Horde_VFS-0.0.1.tgz
 
     Where will it be installed (on FreeBSD, with PHP / pear(1) from ports)?
 
 > When you install that packages using pear(1) directly it would place 
 > them inside the php_dir (defaults to /usr/lib/php).
 
     Well, it's /usr/local/lib/php/pear on this box (php4-pear-4.3.11_1),
     which means ports-installed pear puts packages in a directory that's
     not in include_path, and that smells like a bug, but...
 
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