When installing a package from PEAR, if the package is in alpha or beta mode, you can add a suffix to the package name to install the appropriate version; for example, running
sudo pear install openid
fails, but
sudo pear install openid-alpha
works.
But how about dependencies? In the example above, the OpenID in PEAR depends on 4 other packages that are also in alpha/beta.
Is there a way to make PEAR load the alpha/beta dependencies without manually installing each one?
pear config-set preferred_state alpha