New comment by williamdes on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/44946#issuecomment-1667833972 Comment: > This situation is similar in some ways to postgresql and IIRC is why packages don't generally depend on postgresql and leave it as a task to the user to manually install and configure. Just to clear things up phpMyAdmin is not a database, so I assume you are referring to pgAdmin ? > As I'm thinking about it, I don't really understand why we depend on php at all, since the user will have to install the php-fpm, php-apache, or php-cgi for that specific version as well. At Debian we do `Recommends: libapache2-mod-php | lighttpd | nginx | php-fpm | httpd` And `Depends: ... php-cli ...` See: https://salsa.debian.org/phpmyadmin-team/phpmyadmin/-/blob/debian/latest/debian/control