On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:43:08PM +0200, Paolo Supino wrote:
[...]
> ===> Returning to build of libxml-2.6.32p2
> ===>  libxml-2.6.32p2 depends on: python->=2.5,<2.6 - not found
> ===>  Verifying install for python->=2.5,<2.6 in lang/python/2.5
> ===>  python-2.5.4p1 uses X11, but /usr/X11R6 not found.
> ===> Returning to build of libxml-2.6.32p2
> Dependency check failed
[...]
>   Why does PHP5 need Python,

It doesn't. It needs libxml2, which in turn needs python at build
time for the python bindings.

> and why does Python need X11?

The Tk interface (that's the tkinter subpackage of python) needs X11.

> What am I doing wrong?

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgVsPorts
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#NoFun (last paragraph)

Ciao,
        Kili

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