{"id":181,"date":"2006-01-14T16:03:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-14T13:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2006\/01\/14\/fixing-gentoos-php-mess\/"},"modified":"2006-01-14T16:03:19","modified_gmt":"2006-01-14T13:03:19","slug":"fixing-gentoos-php-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2006\/01\/14\/fixing-gentoos-php-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"fixing gentoo&#8217;s php mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK&#8230;there&#8217;s one thing gentoo is REALLY messy. And that&#8217;s php support. In fact it&#8217;s so crappy at the current time, that it&#8217;s almost imposible to use <a href=\"http:\/\/pear.php.net\/\">PEAR<\/a> without a ton of user &#8220;hacks&#8221;, unless you can find someone else to do it for you. There are lots of packages still depending on the old dev-php scheme&#8230;and some newer depending on the dev-php4 or dev-php5. 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