5 Jan
2007
5 Jan
'07
5:40 p.m.
On Friday 05 January 2007 11:28, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Friday 05 January 2007 09:12, Jared wrote:
Until I met Gentoo. Doing the simplest upgrade of Apache+PHP, I spent hours HOURS learning about the emerge system because PHP is considered experimental and recent releases are all kinds of INTENTIONALLY complicated, in order to keep newbies from breaking their system by installing PHP.
The nice thing about Mandriva (and Fedora for that matter) is that installing PHP doesn't break anything. Even if you're a newbie. It just works.
He said an experimental PHP version. You probably *can't* get that for Mandriva/Fedora without manually compiling source.