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[nycphp-talk] MAMP or XAMPP ?

Daniel Convissor danielc at analysisandsolutions.com
Mon May 10 10:21:38 EDT 2010


Hi Anthony:

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:11:09AM -0400, Anthony Wlodarski wrote:
> Tasksel is a package
> management tool for the meta packages that point to the most recent version
> of the software that exists in the stack.  That way you don't have to piece
> together PHP5, MySQL, and Apache and their latest versions.

While tasksel is very handy, one must be very careful when using it.  
One time when hacking around on my then new Ubuntu 9.10 server box I 
chose to use tasksel to uninstall the mail server.  To my surprise, it 
also removed my MySQL install.

--Dan

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