Need clarification on install procedure

[Scott Haneda]

On Jul 1, 2010, at 6:44 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jun 30, 2010, at 13:15, Bill Christensen wrote:
>> At 2:29 AM -0500 6/30/10, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> So you edited the php5 Portfile to change the configure.args, I guess? What kinds of changes did you need to make?
>> 
>> Yep.  The original config had "--without mysql" for instance, and I added pear supprt as well.
> 
> You don't need to edit the port to get MySQL support; instead, you use the php5-mysql port.
> 
> Same for PEAR support: instead, you use the php5 port's +pear variant.

How come if you need MySql support you would do php5-mysql but if you need pear you would do php5 +pear, which seems inconsistent?  I don't care, but to a end user, it would seem more logical to be looking for php5-pear.

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