heh, but it will force me to rebuild it without

I wouldn't have thought so. I believe PHP can be built with both MySQL and PostgreSQL support at the same time. At least that's what I remember.

yes, but it will mean that postgresql will become a dependency of php, and I don't want to install it on my webservers.

not that I have anything against postgresql: I used it in the past with postgis for grass.

just to make an example that what makes someone happy can also make someone else sad

I'm not sure I understand. Won't just commenting out the appropriate module in php.ini allow PHP run happily even if PostgreSQL is absent (while PHP is compiled with PostgreSQL support)?

oops, haven't tried it but most probably yes.

sorry for the noise and please ignore the previous posts

EDIT (the following day): I shouldn't post in the evening when I'm really tired, sometimes I talk nonsense

Adding fuse to the installer seems like it might be overkill, but I can add ntfs.ko to the next update so that there's at least read-only NTFS support.

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Thanks Pat

Yes and this is good enough for installing slackware from a source (packages) tree on an NTFS partition. People like me who install slackware to a (destination) NTFS partition of course can "installpkg" fuse and ntfs-3g to the initrd. That is by no means a complex task.

I had my first computer on mid 2005, before that I was a musician (violoncellist to be exact) my knowledge about computers was zero. It took me six months to get bored of Windows (I hacked on it all what I could), I had my first linux installed on 2006. I had a web server running Slackware on 2011 using sendmail as mail server, all configured manually.

I prefer sendmail to exim or postfix.

Masochist is that human tendency to complicate things simplifying.

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About PostgreSQL. The reason to choose MySQL is popularity. I don't know PostgreSQL but even knowing that is better I would be forced to use MySQL on my server just because is what most people use.

Why would you do something like that?

It has been a while, but I actually did this with the Slackware 13.1 install initrd.img so that I can PXE boot Windows machines with the installer and write to an NTFS formatted external USB drive. I have never bothered updating as subsequent versions were too large to boot on some hardware I had at the time.
I have since I upgraded the server box where I did this and so far have been unable to locate the exact details, but I believe that it was quite easy. It just required adding ntfs-3g to /bin, libntfs-3g.so to /lib and perhaps libntfs-3g.la to /usr/lib. Another nicety would be a symlink /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g -> /bin/ntfs-3g.

Dosbox would be a nice addition, not a very big program to take much space.


I know I am probably adding more fuel to the fire now, since I finally got my new Slack64 system up and running nicely, but now I would also like to throw my out there again and perhaps have multilib either in the install option or the very least in /extra.

I would like to see http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.0/system/dump/ added to the A series and the install disc.

I, too, am itching to know the reason for this.

Just for fun.