Shan Destromp wrote:
> 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)
>

I had the same requirement, and I eventually gave up trying. It seems
even if you have -X as a use flag something will eventually install it,
unfortunatly,....