Where did PEAR go???

[Gerard Samuel]

Roman Neuhauser wrote:

># gsam at trini0.org / 2003-07-24 21:22:04 -0400:
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>>Gerard Samuel wrote:
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>> Not sure why this isn't enabled in php.ini, but to work around my little
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>>problem above, edit /usr/local/etc/php.ini,
>>and modify the "include_path" option to (don't forget to remove the ; at 
>>the beginning of the line) ->
>>include_path = ".:/usr/local/share/pear/bootstrap"
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>>This was done after I copied the new php.ini-recommended to php.ini
>>Restart the webserver and its done.  If there is another (better) way, 
>>then by all means let me know..
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>    there is a better way: install the required pear-* packages.
>    the bootstrap dir is a hack for the ports system to break out of
>    circular dependencies.
>
Please excuse my lack of knowledge in this area.
But PEAR.php comes with the default php install.
Thats all the script (Chora/Horde) needed.  Whats the purpose of 
installing pear-* packages???