Bug 173808

Summary:	RFE: php-pear bundles unnecessary packages in main RPM; slim it down?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tim Jackson <rpm>
Component:	prctl	Assignee:	Joe Orton <jorton>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	4	CC:	joshkel
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Description Tim Jackson 2005-11-21 14:51:52 UTC

php-pear currently bundles a bunch of PEAR packages which don't superficially
appear to be "core" to PEAR. Packages bundled up in php-pear can't be upgraded
(in a nice RPM way) without rebuilding the whole bundle. This of course also
means that there is more stuff to distribute (a whole bundle) in the event of a
bug in one single package.

I would suggest that php-pear includes the absolute minimum of bundled PEAR
packages, and all other PEAR modules are packaged separately, so as not to
unnecessarily inhibit the upgrading of individual PEAR modules. The minimal set
installed by the PEAR bootstrap on http://go-pear.org/ seems to be:

PEAR
Archive_Tar
XML_RPC
Console_Getopt
OS_Guess

which is considerably smaller than the set of packages that the current php-pear
bundle provides (which currently includes Net_SMTP, Net_Socket,
Net_UserAgent_Detect, HTTP, HTML_Template_IT, DB and XML_Parser in addition to
the above)

Comment 1 Joe Orton 2005-12-01 22:22:20 UTC

Done in php-pear-1.4.5-2.  I couldn't find OS_Guess so I guess it's legacy.

Comment 2 Tim Jackson 2005-12-02 07:09:08 UTC

I had a look into it and it seems OS_Guess is not a "real" package, just a
script which is internal to PEAR but named using the same conventions as normal
packages. Unlike the other bundled packages, it's not available separately on
pear.php.net.