[mythtv-users] KDE (libs) required for mythtv?

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Wed Aug 25 14:42:45 EDT 2004


On Wednesday 25 August 2004 13:43, Xavier Hervy wrote:
> Jason wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >     I'm trying to clean up my gentoo system, and am wondering about
> > KDE library requirements in MythTV.  I've got KDE installed, but I
> > don't use it as a window manager at all.  I'd like to remove it and
> > the related chunks, but don't want to break anything.
> >
> >     I grepped through the mythtv sources for kde, and only found it
> > associated with arts support.  I know I don't use arts, so I'm
> > thinking I can remove KDE, since that seems to be the only
> > dependency for kde.
> >
> >     Are there folks out there not running the KDE libraries on
> > their myth systems?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
>
> yes you can remove KDE without trouble
> Xavier

IIRC the mythbrowser plugin uses KDE components.  If you don't need 
mythbrowser, you should be able to safely remove KDE.

-JAC


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