Is there a way to uninstall an extension?

[K2ouMais]

Hello,

first of all... Thank you very much for this wonderful package.

This made install extensions in my docker containers a breeze and I cant live without it.

I dont think this is a feature request, other than just a simple question...

Is there a way to uninstall a package?

Let me say it like this... Usually I have a base image for every project, but on some I dont need an already installed package and I just unsinstall it through PECL.

If you have a simple way I would take it in no time...

Thank you again

[mlocati]

Let's say that you have installed the GD extension.
If you want to disable it, you simply have to delete the ini file that tells PHP to load it.
For example:

rm "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/docker-php-ext-gd.ini"

If you'd like to disable it temporarily, you can simply prepend a ; to the extension= (or zend_extension=) directive.

This can be done with this command:

sed -Ei 's/^([ \t]*(zend_)?extension[ \t]*=)/;\1/' "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/docker-php-ext-gd.ini"

You can re-enable it at a later time by removing the ; character, for example with:

sed -Ei 's/^[ \t]*;[ \t]*((zend_)?extension[ \t]*=)/\1/' "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/docker-php-ext-gd.ini"

Here's a sample session:

$ cat "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/docker-php-ext-gd.ini"
extension=gd.so

$ php -r 'var_dump(extension_loaded("gd"));'
bool(true)

$ sed -Ei 's/^([ \t]*(zend_)?extension[ \t]*=)/;\1/' "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/docker-php-ext-gd.ini"

$ cat "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/docker-php-ext-gd.ini"
;extension=gd.so

$ php -r 'var_dump(extension_loaded("gd"));'
bool(false)

$ sed -Ei 's/^[ \t]*;[ \t]*((zend_)?extension[ \t]*=)/\1/' "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/docker-php-ext-gd.ini"

$ cat "$PHP_INI_DIR/conf.d/docker-php-ext-gd.ini"
extension=gd.so

$ php -r 'var_dump(extension_loaded("gd"));'
bool(true)