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From: Roop Nanuwa <roop.nanuwa@gmail.com>
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Subject: PHP5-GD and X11 requirement
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I'm trying to add GD support into my PHP5 install and I'm utterly
confused by one thing. For some reason, GD has a dependency on X. Why
is that? This is a server  that doesn't even have a monitor plugged
in, what features of X does the PHP GD module require? It seems rather
ridiculous to me that there would that requirement.

What's the reasoning behind it? What features of the X libraries does
GD make use of?