You are very likely right.
I tried to test a web application which needed a number of php5 stuff to be pulled.
Once I decided the tests were over, I tried to uninstall those packages.
The end situation was the one I described.
php5-cgi says:
Description-en: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary)
This package provides the /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 CGI interpreter built
for use in Apache 2 with mod_actions, or any other CGI httpd that
supports a similar mechanism. Note that MOST Apache users probably
want the libapache2-mod-php5 package.
The following extensions are built in: bcmath bz2 calendar Core ctype date
dba dom ereg exif fileinfo filter ftp gettext hash iconv json libxml
mbstring mhash openssl pcntl pcre Phar posix Reflection session shmop
SimpleXML soap sockets SPL standard sysvmsg sysvsem sysvshm tokenizer wddx
xml xmlreader xmlwriter zip zlib.
apache2 says:
Description-en: Apache HTTP Server metapackage
The Apache Software Foundation's goal is to build a secure, efficient and
extensible HTTP server as standards-compliant open source software. The
result has long been the number one web server on the Internet.
.
It features support for HTTPS, virtual hosting, CGI, SSI, IPv6, easy
scripting and database integration, request/response filtering, many
flexible authentication schemes, and more.
I don't really understand from the descriptions how they are mutually exclusive, as seen in my 1st post.
Moreover, if one of them requires php5, that package should get expunged along with them, whichever I ask to uninstall.
You are very likely right.
I tried to test a web application which needed a number of php5 stuff to be pulled.
Once I decided the tests were over, I tried to uninstall those packages.
The end situation was the one I described.
php5-cgi says: cgi-bin/ php5 CGI interpreter built
Description-en: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary)
This package provides the /usr/lib/
for use in Apache 2 with mod_actions, or any other CGI httpd that
supports a similar mechanism. Note that MOST Apache users probably
want the libapache2-mod-php5 package.
The following extensions are built in: bcmath bz2 calendar Core ctype date
dba dom ereg exif fileinfo filter ftp gettext hash iconv json libxml
mbstring mhash openssl pcntl pcre Phar posix Reflection session shmop
SimpleXML soap sockets SPL standard sysvmsg sysvsem sysvshm tokenizer wddx
xml xmlreader xmlwriter zip zlib.
apache2 says:
Description-en: Apache HTTP Server metapackage
The Apache Software Foundation's goal is to build a secure, efficient and
extensible HTTP server as standards-compliant open source software. The
result has long been the number one web server on the Internet.
.
It features support for HTTPS, virtual hosting, CGI, SSI, IPv6, easy
scripting and database integration, request/response filtering, many
flexible authentication schemes, and more.
I don't really understand from the descriptions how they are mutually exclusive, as seen in my 1st post.
Moreover, if one of them requires php5, that package should get expunged along with them, whichever I ask to uninstall.