{"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. So when one tries to install dev-lang\/php with some pear packages he might need, a pear package might request installing dev-php\/php too. So you end up with 2 php packages, php5 and php4! Anyway&#8230;if you really want to setup the latest php support in gentoo you should do it with <a href=\"http:\/\/svn.gnqs.org\/projects\/gentoo-php-overlay\/\">gentoo-php-overlay<\/a>. I got bored of trying to fix gentoo&#8217;s php packages to depend on dev-lang\/php and not dev-php\/php using regular expressions to edit the ebuilds and re-digest them on my local PORTDIR_OVERLAY.<br \/>\nSomeone should really fix gentoo&#8217;s php support SOON. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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 PEAR 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":3647,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}