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[Mark McKinstry <mmckinst@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eventually the system PCRE will start to show its age. Given that the
purpose of IUS is to provide new packages from an upstream source, I don't
see why to favor the system PCRE over the bundled PCRE given upsteam PHP is
keeping it up to date.

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Mark McKinstry <mmckinst@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> In
> https://github.com/iuscommunity-pkg/php56u/commit/1834368addfcfdf72daeafcc105d648c1d2dd069
> PHP was changed to use the system PCRE instead of the bundled PCRE for el7.
> Previous versions of IUS PHP RPMs have used the bundled PCRE (
> https://github.com/iuscommunity-pkg/php56u/pull/1) instead of the system
> PCRE.
>
> Why was el7 switched to use the system PCRE instead of the bundled PCRE?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mark McKinstry
>