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

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> HI
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>         that might be a *lot* of bug reports:
>
>       $ repoquery -q --whatrequires webserver| wc -l
>       20
>       $ repoquery -q --whatrequires httpd| wc -l
>       205
>
>
> You shouldn't do this blindly.  Some packages specifically need
> httpd and not just any webserver. This needs to be analyzed and
> reported on a case by case basis.  As you can imagine, this is a lot
> of careful analysis from the packager's perspective as well.  I know
> and can ensure some package I maintain works with httpd.  I don't
> know even know how to start some of the others much less actively
> test it for each release.  This is why a lot of package maintainers
> just depend on httpd directly.

  i realize that, which is why my later reply admitted that it's
entirely possible that many of those packages really depend on httpd.
i'm simply making an observation.

rday

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