如何在LAMP堆栈中全局禁用EXIF支持？

I cannot seem to disable the EXIF support which is enabled by default when doing a traditional LAMP stack install.

I cannot come up with anything better than to comment out EXIF in the php.ini file.

;[exif]
; Exif UNICODE user comments are handled as UCS-2BE/UCS-2LE and JIS as JIS.
; With mbstring support this will automatically be converted into the encoding
; given by corresponding encode setting. When empty mbstring.internal_encoding
; is used. For the decode settings you can distinguish between motorola and
; intel byte order. A decode setting cannot be empty.
; http://www.php.net/manual/en/exif.configuration.php#ini.exif.encode-unicode
;exif.encode_unicode = ISO-8859-15

Although after commenting out the [exif] line of code and saving php.ini, stopping the server, and then starting the server again I still receive phpinfo() function information which states that EXIF is indeed still enabled. (See image below)