PHP4 and apache2 in main (was: Re: Any "Compellng" reason to upgrade?)

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Mon Apr 11 09:46:33 UTC 2005


On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:36:59PM +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2005, at 9:12 PM, smarttaz wrote:
> >What's the point of a Linux distro which does not target in any way the
> >running of a Web server? And for many people, it's not just Apache, but
> >also PHP _and_ MySQL too!!
> 
> I don't know why PHP4 isn't in main, but Apache2 is. I'd have to assume 
> that because the original promotion of Ubuntu was as a desktop OS, the 
> presence of PHP4 was seen as not as high a priority as you see it.

libapache2-mod-php4, php4-cgi, php4-cli, php4-common, php4-dev, and php4
are all in main.  I don't see what the problem is?
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