[CentOS] Cacti rpm for el5.6 with php53

Tue Apr 26 17:09:36 UTC 2011
Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane <todd.denniston at navy.mil>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: On Behalf Of Pasi Kärkkäinen
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:13
> 
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 04:34:53PM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> > Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Does someone know if there's a cacti rpm available
> > > that works (=installs and doesn't conflict) when "php53" rpm
> > > is installed, instead of the older "php" rpm ?
> > >
> > > cacti rpms from rpmforge/dag have these requirements:
> > > php
> > > php-mysql
> > > php-snmp
> > >


> Hey,
> 
> Yep, I know I can create my own version of cacti,
> but I was trying to avoid exactly that :)
> 
> Thanks for the heads up about rpmforge mailing list,
> I wasn't aware of it.
> 
> -- Pasi
> 

Not being a PHP developer, I was under the impression that many/most of these packages were interpreted scripts which probably would work fine under php53 vs. the php installed by default.
I have been wondering from afar about this thread and the discussions over in the EPEL list, if someone could create a meta rpm that required php53 and provided php (and similar for php-mysql & php-snmp) and have the system continue to work.  This is of course under the assumptions of:
a. the packages are interpreted scripts
b. the syntax has only added, and not changed or removed functionality since the stock php. 

Is this a not_bright idea in the php package world?