What kinds of things do you have on that machine? I've managed to keep a
machine with just apache, php, mysql, and other solely server-related
things completely X-free (pun intended). Aside from the X USE flag, also
check flags such as qt and arts.

--Geoff Mishkin <gmishkin@comcast.net>


On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:10:28 +0000, Zapp Brannigan wrote:

> 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,....