Why I'm trying to build PHP from source

Hello, sorry for being an annoyance but I want to explain why I'm trying to install things the hard way. Mainly because I thought I'd rather learn what the modules of PHP are and where I put them on the machine instead of using a bunch of installs like so: 
 
sudo aptitude php5 search 
aptitude install php5 libapache2-mod-php5
 
 then I would have things working ahead instead of installing all the packages. However, do tell me if I'm off my league and it's easier to install all the packages. I have already installed apache2, mysql, ssl from source, the only thing I left to install using a package is curl support.
 
Thanks for your help.

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