Hi,

I'm running a webserver with Gentoo and Apache, no problems
But recently I've taught myself a little PHP, so I made a photo gallery
with PHP, and would like to put it on my server.
A friend of mine said that I need to install a PHP module, and from my
experience with SuSE Linux, there's a mod_php for Apache.

Unfortunately, when I do "emerge -a mod_php", the Portage system demands
me to install Xorg, which I don't want or need on my webserver...
There are some required library's depending on that package, but I
wonder why you have to install a (base) graphical system for using a PHP
module?
Also, can I avoid it some way by disabling some USE flags?

Thanks,

Jasper.

jasper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a webserver with Gentoo and Apache, no problems
> But recently I've taught myself a little PHP, so I made a photo gallery
> with PHP, and would like to put it on my server.
> A friend of mine said that I need to install a PHP module, and from my
> experience with SuSE Linux, there's a mod_php for Apache.
>
> Unfortunately, when I do "emerge -a mod_php", the Portage system demands
> me to install Xorg, which I don't want or need on my webserver...
> There are some required library's depending on that package, but I
> wonder why you have to install a (base) graphical system for using a PHP
> module?
> Also, can I avoid it some way by disabling some USE flags?

Try:

USE="-qt -gtk -gtk2 -X" emerge php mod_php

May have forgotten one or two, but you still get the drift...

--
/ray

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Raymond Baastad wrote:

> jasper wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running a webserver with Gentoo and Apache, no problems
>> But recently I've taught myself a little PHP, so I made a photo gallery
>> with PHP, and would like to put it on my server.
>> A friend of mine said that I need to install a PHP module, and from my
>> experience with SuSE Linux, there's a mod_php for Apache.
>>
>> Unfortunately, when I do "emerge -a mod_php", the Portage system demands
>> me to install Xorg, which I don't want or need on my webserver...
>> There are some required library's depending on that package, but I wonder
>> why you have to install a (base) graphical system for using a PHP module?
>> Also, can I avoid it some way by disabling some USE flags?
>
> Try:
>
> USE="-qt -gtk -gtk2 -X" emerge php mod_php

Assuming the OP never wants X, QT, etc. he should probably add these to
his USE flags in /etc/make.conf

Raymond Baastad enlightened us with:
> USE="-qt -gtk -gtk2 -X" emerge php mod_php

DO NOT use environment variables like that. It'll break the next time
OP wants to upgrade those packages. Use /etc/make.conf, or
/etc/portage/packages.use for package-specific USE flags.

Also, OP only wants mod_php, and that is what should be emerged. Let
Portage handle the dependencies. That way, if he ever wants to unmerge
mod_php, php can be cleaned by Portage.

Sybren
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