No Extra Crap

Kilian · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 74 Location: Canada

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but maybe I'll get some help here. It's really simple. I don't want X windows installed. At all. For any reason. PHP seems to believe it needs X, even though it doesn't. I know it doesn't, because I can do it on other linux systems. my USE flags get ignored, and it's really actually starting to piss me off that short of hacking the ebuild to bits, there doesn't seem to be a way to do this. Feel free to enlighten me if I am incorrect.

Kilian · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 74 Location: Canada

Ok, so I finally just hacked make.defaults all to hell and back, now things work the way they should have in the first place... but my question still stands as to why my USE flags were being ignored. If I explicitly specify "-X" in make.conf, it had better take precidence over make.defaults, and for whatever reason, that's not the case.

rac · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 7:31 am Post subject:

There should never be a need to touch make.defaults. What is the exact ebuild that you were trying to emerge and what were your USE settings in /etc/make.conf?
_________________
For every higher wall, there is a taller ladder

Kilian · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 74 Location: Canada

The problem was with trying to emerge php. Instead of a nice, basic php install, it decided that I needed to install all the qt libraries (unneccesary), X11 (unneccesary) as well as alot of other random bloat. My make.conf is as follows:

aanund · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 147

adding -qt -qtmt should take care of the qt dependency, but where the X dependency comes from, I have no idea, except if qt depends on x? Might be, but add -qt and -qtmt to USE at least.

Delphiki · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2002 Posts: 337 Location: A2

I see a -kde but I don't see a -qt in your use flags, which would be what caused the qt depence, which in turns caused the X dependence, or so I would imagine.
_________________
Excellent..

Kilian · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2002 Posts: 74 Location: Canada

Yep, that appears to be it. Although I'm not sure why that is... I can think of a few situations where it might be handy to have the qt libraries despite a lack of X11. Oh well.

rac · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 7:17 pm Post subject:

tcltk is another vector for bringing X in:

timbo · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 9:32 pm Post subject:

I have put mod_php onto a small server I'm setting up as a jukebox and had struck the same thing. All I done was went through the iuse of mod_php and -whatever the emerge -p mod_php was trying to add into my make.conf.

I had -X -kde -gnome but addted -qt and heaps of other stuff not needed for php or apache.

Works a charm on the 486dx2 100 with 32meg ram.....

Regards
Tim

aja · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 12:36 am Post subject:

You may want to add a -motif to those use flags. Motif dependence is another thing that causes a request to install X. Sort of a nasty surprise when emerging emacs pulls X with it :-)