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July 18

PHP extensions fatigue

Each time I install a Debian-Apache-MySQL-PHP web hosting environment for PHPMyAdmin, Composer and Drupal, I do:

apt install gettext php-curl php-cli php-mysql php-mysqli php-zip php-json php-cgi php-gd php-mbstring php-seclib php-phpsecli php-pear libapache2-mod-php

It causes me fatigue because every day the names of the packages can change and then I need to search for the new names.

How to deal with this fatigue?

Is there a command to install all PHP extensions and be done with it? (I know it may sound idiotic but I am feeling powerless to deal with this after several years).

Ansible and Docker are an overkill for my personal needs so I stick with Bash. 2A10:8012:13:67D3:5DE1:C637:2EFA:17EE (talk) 15:54, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Recommended" Styles in MS Word in Windows 11

This question isn't urgent, but is idle curiosity. In Microsoft Word, if I click to list the Styles (which seems to be Alt-Ctrl-Shift-S, but I have an icon on the ribbon), it lists the Styles, and gives me two sets of options, one for which styles to list, and one for how to arrange them. It defaults to showing the Recommended styles and to listing them in Recommended order. I always change the order to Alphabetical, because I don't know what styles it recommends, but I know what styles I want. I usually change to listing all styles, because, again, I know what I want, and don't want its advice. However, as a matter of idle curiosity, can someone give me a link to where the rules are documented for what it Recommends? I know what I want, but would like to know where it is documented what it recommends. Robert McClenon (talk) 17:19, 18 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt it's documented. They just make stuff up in the hope that users will be too lazy to think about document design and then it will be obvious to their readers that "This is a Microsoft Word document." Shantavira|^{feed me} 12:34, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I see that if you select recommended, it is then possible to tell it what to recommend. That is, the recommended styles are based on a list of priority numbers, which you can view and edit. The rationale for the default priorities is not something I could find out about, but you can at least see what all the default recommendations are. Card Zero (talk) 12:58, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]