For all of the Mac fans out there, there's a quick little tutorial that aims to help you install over 15 PHP modules using a combination of fink (quite the amazing tool) and a few extra source code compiles.

Install the following packages with fink: (http://fink.sourceforge.net ) libpng3, t1lib1, libjpeg, libtiff, libiconv, pdflib, curl, gmp, gettext, libxml2, libxslt, zlib, libexpat, libmcrypt, openssl, uw-imap-c-client-ssl. You can either use fink from command line or fink commander (easier).

Then, they step you through an install of MySQL, the FreeType libraries, and the Sablotron libraries. Then, once those are installed, let the fun begin. I don't think I've ever seen a longer configure string - and I'm not sure if I'd even know what to do with all of that functionality.

Which brings up an interesting point - would you all rather do something like this (install tons of modules, even ones you don't need), or do you only install the ones that you need, keeping things a bit more streamlined?