Python in the PHP build? Why??

MMacD

MMacD

Does anyone know why there are things in the lang/php73 build that have nothing to do with the language? I've run across "kyua", "lutok", TWO versions of Python, GIT, and goddess knows what else. What possible relationship could any of them have to the PHP language port? It's especially annoying since there's no simple way to exclude them.
 
MMacD said:
What possible relationship could any of them have to the PHP language port?
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As far as I can tell it's not the lang/php73 port that pulls it in. It could be one of its dependencies though. Often it's only used as a build dependency. The devel/automake port for example depends on Perl, so that would pull in Perl. Not required to run it but it is required to build it.
 
It's just dependencies. The amount of dependencies on open source softwares is insane.
 
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