> Php-yaml can be installed using PHP's PECL package manager. This extension requires the LibYAML C library version 0.1.0 or higher to be installed.
$ sudo apt-get install libyaml-dev
This is basically how "pip" works, and while it's fine for basic stuff, it gets pretty bad if you want to install fancy numerical of cryptography package on a LTS linux system that's at the end of the support period.
I am guessing that PHP might simply have less need for native packages, being more web-oriented.
> Php-yaml can be installed using PHP's PECL package manager. This extension requires the LibYAML C library version 0.1.0 or higher to be installed.
This is basically how "pip" works, and while it's fine for basic stuff, it gets pretty bad if you want to install fancy numerical of cryptography package on a LTS linux system that's at the end of the support period.I am guessing that PHP might simply have less need for native packages, being more web-oriented.