Although, <div><br></div><div>In Harry's defence I'd like to point out that using tasksel for a LAMP installation does at least give you a choice of apache2 or lightpd. So, php should not really be dragging anything in as a 'depends'. Those wishing to install LAMP can do so quite easily.<div>
<br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Phill.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Martin Pitt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.pitt@ubuntu.com">martin.pitt@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello Harry,<br>
<br>
Harry Strongburg [2010-08-13 4:55 +0000]:<br>
<div class="im">> I found out why though, it's packaged with php5, which is also<br>
> pretty stupid to do. If a user installs PHP, they should also<br>
> install any httpd they want. Not Apache automatically.<br>
<br>
</div>php5 installs everything related to PHP, which includes the web server<br>
module. If you only want the command line interpreter, but none of the<br>
web stuff, just install php5-cli instead. But I dare to claim that<br>
most people who want PHP actually want it as a web server platform.<br>
<br>
Martin<br>
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