[mythtv-users] modernizing mythtv

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Sun May 11 00:49:08 UTC 2014


On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 04:33:52PM -0400, Will Dormann wrote:
> On 5/10/14, 4:21 PM, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 01:30:49PM -0400, Will Dormann wrote:
> >> I'm also curious about this.   mythbackend has several X library
> >> dependencies, and therefore I would think that somewhere along the way
> >> you'd run into trouble if they were not present.
> > ...
> >> $ ldd `which mythbackend` | grep X
> > 
> > Actually mythbackend doesn't:
> > # objdump -x /usr/bin/mythbackend | grep NEEDED
> 
> > But Qt does ...
> 
> 
> I'm not sure that I follow your logic.   By that same test, mythfrontend
> doesn't need X either.  But I'm pretty sure that you can't run
> mythfrontend without X.

   You can run mythfrontend without a local X server running too.

   There's probably not much use for that but it's certainly possible.

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