These scripts do much too much, and unnecessarily so! [Debian]

[levitte]

Running these scripts on a Debianesque machine that already has an Apache installation is quite disruptive and leaves the admin with some janitorial work to clean up the created mess.

I understand that it may look like a convenience to have everything pre-installed, including nginx. However, in my scenario, that's a disservice rather than a convenience.

Besides, the passbolt-ce-server has all the necessary dependencies well specified already, so why is there a need to force the choice in these scripts?

Pre-Depends: debconf
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, php-cli (>= 7), php-mbstring (>= 7), php-intl (>= 7), php-mysql (>= 7), php-fpm (>= 7), php-xml (>= 7), php-gd (>= 7), php-gnupg, cron
Recommends: default-mysql-server | virtual-mysql-server, nginx | apache2
Suggests: certbot, python-certbot-nginx | python-certbot-apache

[dlen]

Hi @levitte ,

You are absolutely right! However this scripts are meant to be used on a vanilla server as pointed in the docs. If you wish to install passbolt on a server with more shared services you can make use of our distro packages. We will update the docs for scenarios like yours and also adapt this scripts to such situations.

Thanks for your feedback