[support] Installing php/mysql issues

[Larry Garfield]

On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Tom Holmes Jr. wrote:

> This type of installation seems to install data/apps ALL over the place
> ... but that is an issue with CentOS and not Drupal.
> I'm used to not installing Apache/PHP on my Linux systems with the
> install because of that.  I like to install apps where I want them to be.
> And kinda keep the apps together neatly.  So I usually download and
> install the OS is installed.

That's actually typical of most OSes, particularly Unixes.  It's one reason 
why installing and managing software independent of a package manager is only 
for the extremely skilled and/or stupid.  (Those two are not mutually 
exclusive.)  Even Windows does that, to a lesser degree.  (Registry, System32 
directory, etc.  It's a mess there, too.)  Mac OS X is the odd man out here, 
and their setup has a different set of problems associated with it.  

But yeah, nothing to do with Drupal.  Web apps *should* be self-contained like 
that (as Drupal is).  If they're not, they suck.

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