WANT_PHP_WEB is just a synonym for WANT_PHP_CGI in automated build environments

[Matthew Pounsett]

On Aug 4, 2014, at 23:15 , Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn at magemana.nl> wrote:

> So, there is no php-cgi or fpm, but www/mod_php5 is not in phpMyAdmin's
> dependencies, which means WANT_PHP_WEB is not satisfied, yet no errors
> are generated.

While it looks like that’s the expected behaviour right now, I don’t agree that it’s good behaviour.  What if someone wants phpMyAdmin using mod_php5 but also wants the CGI and/or FPM versions installed for other reasons?   This is using the absence of guidance as guidance, which could work some of the time but isn’t as desirable as being able to give specific guidance.

> 
> Filed as: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192388

And closed almost as fast as it was opened.  Since the whole point of WANT_PHP_{WEB,CGI,MOD} is for setting dependencies, I can’t see how it can be claimed that this “works as intended” when dependencies aren’t properly set.