[Fedora-php-devel-list] Dependencies on php vs php-common

[Joe Orton]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:08:27PM +0100, Tim Jackson wrote:
> Joe Orton wrote:
> 
> > Agreed that PECL packages should only have dependencies on the virtual 
> > provides.  php-pear packages may have some dependency on PHP language 
> > versions; not sure about this one.
> 
> But even if they do have a dep on a language version, shouldn't that be
> "php-common >= x" rather than "php >= x"?

I guess a virtual provide would be better even here, but the "PHP 
language" is essentially unversioned so there's nothing really 
appropriate.

joe