[Mageia-dev] lighttpd and others now require apache

[David Walser]

Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> Le 17/03/2012 03:22, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
>> Hence I suggest a single user id to be used. (I'm fine with any other
>> solution which works as well)
> My main concern is the fuzziness of the current situation where we have
> - one virtual package 'webserver' corresponding to four implementations 
> (apache, lightpd, nginx, cherooke)
> - one common base (webserver-base) only used by the two first ones
> - all our web applications packages using 'apache' as mandatory dependency
> 
> If the main concern is file ownership, I'd propose for the next release 
> to have each of these servers use a distinct uid, document root and 
> index page, but use a shared 'webserver' or 'www' gid, and ensure all of 
> those applications use group-based permission, instead of user-based. 
> I'd find this setup a bit clearer.

I also noticed two of the php subpackages adding the apache user in %post.
Should they be doing this, should they Requires(post): webserver-base, or
should this be handled some other way?