[sles-beta] php disappeared in beta6?

[Joe Doupnik]

     Thanks for chiming in Kai. Your comments simply reinforce what I 
speculated about. Removal has nothing, nada, to do with offering more, 
as anyone can see at first glance. It has everything to do with the 
people who want customers to use the "more" facility. Thus the attempts 
at gloss and justification continue.

     While here, addressing points by Richard Brown today. Auto 
discovery of services is basically "designed to fail." One would not 
want that rating in one's engineering copybook.
     Broadcast/multicast are normally terminated at routers, often 
terminated upon entry to servers as well. A person/box which naively 
believes what arrives from goodness knows where gets what they deserve. 
The broad/multicast approach went out more than 20 years ago when MS 
Windows and Novell IPX traffic flooded our networks.
     May I recommend sound engineering practice here, unicast using 
known destinations. No "Click Here" for our servers.
     Joe D.

On 20/05/2014 11:17, Kai Dupke wrote:
> On 05/20/2014 12:02 PM, Joe Doupnik wrote:
>> I cannot understand otherwise the removal aspect.
> It's not about removal of something but about to provide more.
>
> More up-to-date version of PHP for example, as requested by many customers.
>
> Having such on-line makes it much more convenient to provide such with a
> recent patch level.
>
> I have understood that some of you seeing difficulties in using such
> repositories, don't want to interfere with this discussion, but wanted
> to answer this assumption.
>
> greetings
> Kai Dupke
> Senior Product Manager
> Server Product Line