[support] Installing php/mysql issues

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com>:

> 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.
>

I shouldn't respond but I just can't help myself.

> 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.
>

Thanks, Larry, I'm glad you think I'm extremely skilled. ;t  I too like 
build applications and put things where I want them and gracefully do 
so.  I have never liked the package managers because I don't learn the 
lower level recipes depending on them.  For version control I use a 
package called stow.

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

Yes, it is true, some nice acronyms for methodologies come to mind as 
well.  Even those are over done in some cases.  I like Drupal's package 
layout.  It is simple and works extremely well.  But that doesn't mean 
I have to copy it to all of the websites on the system.  I can point 
/usr/local/htdocs/Drupal in the web configuration or I can use a 
symbolic link to the Drupal directory as the htdocs directory for the 
website.

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