> I'm setting up a web/dns/mail server as my first try at gentoo, and > everything was going along pretty well as I installed bind and apache > and a few other basic packages with 'emerge -k <package_name>', until I > decided to try to install mod_php. Now, granted I didn't verify that > this was exactly what I wanted, but I think it is. I'm just looking for > the php plug-in to Apache. But anyway, I didn't do the --pretend switch > on emerge to see what kind of dependencies it'd pick up and was rather > surprised when it started pulling all of the xfree86 libraries and a few > other things. > > Needless to say, as this is a server, I'd rather not even have X, or > anything that's only needed by X, installed. Waste of space, etc. Is > there any way I can set a USE flag in make.conf that's like a > don't-install-any-X-stuff flag? The USE flags as I understand them are > kind of the opposite of that. They say, 'install this capability for > every package you build that can', but I want to avoid installing any > packages that either require X or are X-related.
Funnily enough, add "-X" into your list of use flags for this. However, php seems to really like having X for some of it's plugins and font processing. alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
