On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:08:27PM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Per Jessen wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
I have to say - with mediawiki, moodle and other similar php-only applications, I always just install the tarball. It's just as easy, and I don't see much need for package management, dependencies and all that.
Thanks for the sanity - thought I might have been missing something! Why would anyone want a package for a web application? It lives in it's one directory structure (no /usr, /etc), .. has it's on config environment, .. and only impacts one *already* userland [web] service.
To get security updates for it for instance. Otherwise you need to remember everything you installed and update it manually... Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org