What does the "without pear" configuration option in PHP mean and how does it affect the installation of Pear?

The "without pear" configuration option in PHP means that the Pear package manager will not be installed along with PHP. This option is useful if you do not want Pear to be installed or if you want to manage packages using other tools. To implement this, you can specify the "--without-pear" flag when configuring PHP during installation. ```bash ./configure --without-pear make make install ```