--- trunk/include/php.sminc	2014/08/21 13:52:18	22055
+++ trunk/include/php.sminc	2016/01/15 09:54:22	27428
@@ -13,8 +13,12 @@
 : ${PHP_PEAR_DIR="/usr/share/php/pear"}
 
 # some sane default dependencies
-DEPEND="${DEPEND}
-	>= dev-lang/php-5.4"
+# but do not include on the php pkg itself
+if [[ ${PNAME} != php ]]
+then
+	DEPEND="${DEPEND}
+		>= dev-lang/php-5.4"
+fi
 
 SDEPEND="${SDEPEND}
 	>= sys-dev/m4-1.4