There's at least one more flag you should set, -qt. Otherwise do the
emerge with -v to see the flags you can use, and disable X-related ones.

--Geoff Mishkin <gmishkin@comcast.net>


On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 13:16:00 -0800, Matt Zykan wrote:

> Trying to get an Apache server with PHP going on a low-end Gentoo
> machine. I have no use for X on it, and I don't want to wait for it to
> compile. Could be decades on this thing.
> emerge says it will install X and OpenGL and all kinds of weird stuff
> when I do "emerge -p mod_php"
> In make.conf I have USE="-X -gtk -gnome -alsa", why is it still
> wanting to install X? PHP can't possibly absolutely NEED X.
> What does mod_php depend on, for real? I could just emerge those
> things and do "emerge --nodeps mod_php", right?