[Mageia-dev] Adding additional provides to php database modules

Wed Jan 4 20:08:35 CET 2012

Am Mittwoch, 28. Dezember 2011, 17:01:17 schrieb Guillaume Rousse:
+> Le 19/12/2011 03:02, Thomas Spuhler a écrit :
+> > Could you please explain a little more what you are looking for.
+> > PHP provides the php-mysql and php-pdo-mysql
+> 
+> He wants to add a php-database virtual package, provided by the
+> different php database bindings.
+Exactly. So mediawiki and drupal could just require "php-database" or 
+something like that.
+
+> 
+> The only problem here is that, pdo aside, there is no unified database
+> interface in php. Some applications may have explicit support for some
+> databases, this doesn't mean they have generic support for any database.
+> You're likely to quickly run into applications able to work with mysql,
+> postgresql or sqlite, and those able to work with just mysql or
+> postgresql. In theory, you'll end up with as much virtual package as
+> potential combination.
+I see the problem. So it would be actually better for each application like 
+drupal and mediawiki to have its own virtual provides for the database 
+packages (like drupal already does).
+
+Thanks,
+
+Oliver
+