mod_php56 package does not add php56 as dependence

As opposite to my past install, I suprisingly discovered that mod_php5x install does no more install it's main dependence : package php5x...
Now, you have to manually add it !

It makes me spend a quite big amount of time before figure this out, it's so highly illogical 8-(

Code:
# pkg install mod_php56
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
New packages to be INSTALLED:
mod_php56: 5.6.30
Number of packages to be installed: 1
The process will require 4 MiB more space.
1 MiB to be downloaded.
Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
Fetching mod_php56-5.6.30.txz:   0%...
(...)
[1/1] Extracting mod_php56-5.6.30: 100%
[activating module `php5' in /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf]
Message from mod_php56-5.6.30:
***************************************************************
Make sure index.php is part of your DirectoryIndex.
You should add the following to your Apache configuration file:
<FilesMatch "\.php$">
...
</FilesMatch>
***************************************************************

And obviously it does not work as is.

pkg install php56

Now it will work (apache restart needed).
Hope this help
Code:
[FreeBSD XXXXXX 11.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 #0 r306420: Thu Sep 29 01:43:23 UTC 2016 root@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64]
 
Maybe the "dependence" word I use is wrong, maybe I should have say "Requirement" ?

A mod_php56 install I made a few months ago (as other versions in older installs in the past) has installed automatically php56 when installing mod_php56... Does something changed, is it wanted and why ?
 
I'm quite sure it never did.

Really ? I'm sure it did (i'm talking of binary packages, not ports) :

I did not find the log of my install of this mod_php56 package some months ago,
but here is an extract from the log from my ssh client software (Penguinet/windows),
it's part of a huge log from a brand new freebsd box install, back in June 2016 :

php70 was installed automatically when mod_php70 is installed, like it used to be with mod_php5x,
and today install is not the same.

Code:
root@ottokar:~michel # pkg install mod_php70
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
The following 2 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
        mod_php70: 7.0.7
        php70: 7.0.7

The process will require 21 MiB more space.
3 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
Fetching mod_php70-7.0.7.txz: 100%    1 MiB   1.2MB/s    00:01
Fetching php70-7.0.7.txz: 100%    2 MiB   2.1MB/s    00:01
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/2] Installing php70-7.0.7...
[1/2] Extracting php70-7.0.7: 100%
[2/2] Installing mod_php70-7.0.7...
[2/2] Extracting mod_php70-7.0.7: 100%
[activating module `php7' in /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf]
Message from mod_php70-7.0.7:
***************************************************************

Make sure index.php is part of your DirectoryIndex.

You should add the following to your Apache configuration file:

<FilesMatch "\.php$">
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.phps$">
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source
</FilesMatch>

***************************************************************
root@ottokar:~michel #
root@ottokar:/usr/local/etc # pkg install php70-extensions
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
The following 19 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
        php70-extensions: 1.1
        php70-ctype: 7.0.7
        php70-iconv: 7.0.7
        php70-json: 7.0.7
(...)
 
I'm quite sure it has never pulled in lang/php56 or 7.0. But I double checked it anyway, this is on a brand new, fresh installed VM:
Code:
root@test11:~ # pkg -vv
The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly, please wait...
Verifying signature with trusted certificate pkg.freebsd.org.2013102301... done
Installing pkg-1.9.4_1...
Extracting pkg-1.9.4_1: 100%
Version                 : 1.9.4
PKG_DBDIR = "/var/db/pkg";
PKG_CACHEDIR = "/var/cache/pkg";
PORTSDIR = "/usr/ports";
INDEXDIR = "";
INDEXFILE = "INDEX-11";
HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS = false;
DEFAULT_ALWAYS_YES = false;
ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES = false;
REPOS_DIR [
    "/etc/pkg/",
    "/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/",
]
PLIST_KEYWORDS_DIR = "";
SYSLOG = true;
ABI = "FreeBSD:11:amd64";
ALTABI = "freebsd:11:x86:64";
DEVELOPER_MODE = false;
VULNXML_SITE = "http://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/vuln.xml.bz2";
FETCH_RETRY = 3;
PKG_PLUGINS_DIR = "/usr/local/lib/pkg/";
PKG_ENABLE_PLUGINS = true;
PLUGINS [
]
DEBUG_SCRIPTS = false;
PLUGINS_CONF_DIR = "/usr/local/etc/pkg/";
PERMISSIVE = false;
REPO_AUTOUPDATE = true;
NAMESERVER = "";
HTTP_USER_AGENT = "pkg/1.9.4";
EVENT_PIPE = "";
FETCH_TIMEOUT = 30;
UNSET_TIMESTAMP = false;
SSH_RESTRICT_DIR = "";
PKG_ENV {
}
PKG_SSH_ARGS = "";
DEBUG_LEVEL = 0;
ALIAS {
    all-depends = "query %dn-%dv";
    annotations = "info -A";
    build-depends = "info -qd";
    cinfo = "info -Cx";
    comment = "query -i \"%c\"";
    csearch = "search -Cx";
    desc = "query -i \"%e\"";
    download = "fetch";
    iinfo = "info -ix";
    isearch = "search -ix";
    prime-list = "query -e '%a = 0' '%n'";
    leaf = "query -e '%#r == 0' '%n-%v'";
    list = "info -ql";
    noauto = "query -e '%a == 0' '%n-%v'";
    options = "query -i \"%n - %Ok: %Ov\"";
    origin = "info -qo";
    provided-depends = "info -qb";
    raw = "info -R";
    required-depends = "info -qr";
    roptions = "rquery -i \"%n - %Ok: %Ov\"";
    shared-depends = "info -qB";
    show = "info -f -k";
    size = "info -sq";
}
CUDF_SOLVER = "";
SAT_SOLVER = "";
RUN_SCRIPTS = true;
CASE_SENSITIVE_MATCH = false;
LOCK_WAIT = 1;
LOCK_RETRIES = 5;
SQLITE_PROFILE = false;
WORKERS_COUNT = 0;
READ_LOCK = false;
PLIST_ACCEPT_DIRECTORIES = false;
IP_VERSION = 0;
AUTOMERGE = true;
VERSION_SOURCE = "";
CONSERVATIVE_UPGRADE = true;
PKG_CREATE_VERBOSE = false;
AUTOCLEAN = false;
DOT_FILE = "";
REPOSITORIES {
}
VALID_URL_SCHEME [
    "pkg+http",
    "pkg+https",
    "https",
    "http",
    "file",
    "ssh",
    "ftp",
    "ftps",
    "pkg+ssh",
    "pkg+ftp",
    "pkg+ftps",
]
ALLOW_BASE_SHLIBS = false;
WARN_SIZE_LIMIT = 1048576;
METALOG = "";


Repositories:
  FreeBSD: {
    url             : "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly",
    enabled         : yes,
    priority        : 0,
    mirror_type     : "SRV",
    signature_type  : "FINGERPRINTS",
    fingerprints    : "/usr/share/keys/pkg"
  }
root@test11:~ # pkg install mod_php70
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.txz: 100%    944 B   0.9kB/s    00:01
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100%    6 MiB   2.0MB/s    00:03
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD repository update completed. 25860 packages processed.
Updating database digests format: 100%
The following 11 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
        mod_php70: 7.0.16
        apache24: 2.4.25_1
        libxml2: 2.9.4
        expat: 2.2.0_1
        apr: 1.5.2.1.5.4_2
        gdbm: 1.12
        indexinfo: 0.2.6
        gettext-runtime: 0.19.8.1_1
        db5: 5.3.28_6
        perl5: 5.24.1.r4_1
        pcre: 8.39_1

Number of packages to be installed: 11

The process will require 143 MiB more space.
34 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: n
root@test11:~ # pkg install mod_php56
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
The following 11 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
        mod_php56: 5.6.30
        apache24: 2.4.25_1
        libxml2: 2.9.4
        expat: 2.2.0_1
        apr: 1.5.2.1.5.4_2
        gdbm: 1.12
        indexinfo: 0.2.6
        gettext-runtime: 0.19.8.1_1
        db5: 5.3.28_6
        perl5: 5.24.1.r4_1
        pcre: 8.39_1

Number of packages to be installed: 11

The process will require 143 MiB more space.
34 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: n
Same thing with latest instead of quarterly. There's no "reason" for it, the port simply doesn't have it listed as a dependency (or requirement, but that boils down to the same thing really). The reason appears quite simple, it would depend on (or require) itself. Which would result in a nice circular dependency when you try to build it ;)

I'm not sure why it does for you but it never pulled in PHP itself for me. Perhaps it's due to something else you installed before installing www/mod_php70?
 
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