Thomas Goirand recently proposed to
relax or even remove some dependencies of web applications on a
web server package.
This would help users wanting to install such web applications in chroots,
while the web server is installed only outside the chroot.
During the following discussion, several solutions were proposed,
such as providing a dummy web server package in Debian. It was
pointed out that such dummy packages are actually very easy to create
with the
equivs package,
which deserves to be better known.