[mythtv-users] Installing mythtv-suite w/o lirc (was: Install Issue)

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:45:07PM -0700, ignacio at shaw.ca wrote:
> Ok, here is my latest problem, i want to install mythtv via apt, but
> whenever i try it forces me to install lirc, which i compilled from
> the cvs, i'm using synaptic as a gui frontend, what would all you
> people ou there recomend i do, i want to install mythtvsuite, and
> all it's dependencies, but i don't want to install lirc, how can i
> specify thati want it to apt to install mythtv-suite without
> installing lirc.

You don't need mythtv-suite to install myth. mythtv-suite is a
convencience pull-them-all-in package. So you can either
o apt-get install <packages you want here>, or
o apt-get install mythtv-suite and
  apt-get remove mythtv-suite lirc
  to remove the umbrella package and the one package you dislike.

(I'd prefer patches/suggestions as how to get the lirc rpm working for
more configs, though ;)


On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:56:16PM -0500, Boyd II, Willy wrote:
> I simply let apt install lirc, then manually deleted the files it
> installed.  Then install your cvs copy of lirc.  I could figure out
> a way to force apt to break any dependencies.

Please don't create inconsitencies between the rpm (or deb) databases
and the actual content on your disk. That's why the packaging is done
quite modular and optional, so you can leave things out.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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