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?

if need be you can edit the .ebuild file manually and remove the deps you
don't want, though this can have adverse effects (though something like X
shouldn't be a very big issue)

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Shan Destromp
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Sent: Sun, Jan 11, 2004 @ 04.41.37 EST
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