packages requiring "httpd" as opposed to requiring "webserver"?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day  wrote:

>
>   is that considered good package design? it may be that there are
> some packages that absolutely need some webserver feature that is
> provided only by httpd, but is it also possible that some packages are
> being unnecessarily restrictive? just trying to understand the
> packaging philosophy here.
>

It is likely that packages that are specifically depending on httpd as
opposed to just webserver are following older guidelines and haven't been
updated.  You should consider filing bug reports

Rahul
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