php-pear most likely depends on php-devel as a courtesy, based on the fact that PECL requires php-devel in order to build some/most/all (?) of its modules. Meaning, when someone says:

# pecl install foo

Foo requires php-devel to build properly, and install the module. Without php-devel as a dependency of php-pear, users would be confronted to sometimes obscure pecl install failures.

--- derks

On Dec 1, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Martín Marqués wrote:

I have my laptop with php-cli and php-pear installed, and I was to do an upgrade and found that yum wanted to install httpd package to my surprise.

Looking in detail, I found that php-pear needed php-devel, which needs php, which needs httpd.

--> Ejecutando prueba de transacción ---> Paquete php-pear.noarch 1:1.9.1-5.fc13 definido para ser actualizado --> Procesando dependencias: php-devel para el paquete: 1:php-pear-1.9.1-5.fc13.noarch --> Ejecutando prueba de transacción ---> Paquete php-devel.x86_64 0:5.3.3-1.fc13 definido para ser instalado --> Procesando dependencias: php = 5.3.3-1.fc13 para el paquete: php-devel-5.3.3-1.fc13.x86_64 --> Ejecutando prueba de transacción ---> Paquete php.x86_64 0:5.3.3-1.fc13 definido para ser instalado --> Procesando dependencias: httpd-mmn = 20051115 para el paquete: php-5.3.3-1.fc13.x86_64 --> Procesando dependencias: httpd para el paquete: php-5.3.3-1.fc13.x86_64 --> Ejecutando prueba de transacción ---> Paquete httpd.x86_64 0:2.2.17-1.fc13.1 definido para ser instalado --> Procesando dependencias: httpd-tools = 2.2.17-1.fc13.1 para el paquete: httpd-2.2.17-1.fc13.1.x86_64 --> Procesando dependencias: apr-util-ldap para el paquete: httpd-2.2.17-1.fc13.1.x86_64 --> Ejecutando prueba de transacción ---> Paquete apr-util-ldap.x86_64 0:1.3.10-1.fc13 definido para ser instalado ---> Paquete httpd-tools.x86_64 0:2.2.17-1.fc13.1 definido para ser instalado

Any ideas why these dependencies appeared? Basically, whi does php-pear need php-devel.

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