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		mikey_p on March 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Packages: The Way Forward for PHP Anymore, I consider system wide package installation to be a liability, not a feature. The whole point/purpose of npm or composer is local installation. Look at the mess of Gem/Bundler and then you have to factor in that rvm and rbenv are basically designed to isolate system wide installation because of the problems associated with system wide installations.

wilmoore on March 7, 2012 [–]

Agreed. I used to dig RVM and rbenv but have come to realize that they are band aids for a problem that should have never been.

BTW, as for pyrus/pear, local install hardly works and it's more of an after-thought anyhow.

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