[mythtv] Possible configure option to disable dbus / udisks?

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 04/09/17 20:52, Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Stuart Auchterlonie
> <stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:
>> On 04/09/17 19:49, Tom Dexter wrote:
>>> Hi. First of all, thanks a million for the work of all the devs. I've
>>> been enjoying mythtv for over 10 years now!
>>>
>>> I'm running my frontend/backend under Gentoo. For some time I've been
>>> compiling both without any dbus (or qtdbus) and with no udisks
>>> installed, though with dvd support enabled, and it works fine for my
>>> purposes. As far as I've ever been able to find out, udisks is only
>>> used for discovering DVD drives etc. dbus is a requirement for udisks
>>> apparently, and if I understand correctly, also gets used for
>>> screensavers...though I have xscreensaver working fine without that. I
>>> actually just upgraded to 0.28.1 with that setup.
>>>
>>> The only thing currently making it impossible to based that on USE
>>> flags in Gentoo is the fact that there's no actual configure option to
>>> disable that. That is, it's based purely on whether or not those are
>>> installed.
>>>
>>> Is there any possibility of adding configure option(s) for that?
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>
>> Feel free to provide patches to add that.
>>
>> We have plenty to work on already so any help is welcome! :)
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Stuart
> 
> Sure. I'll see what I can do, though that's a little out of my
> wheelhouse. One aspect of it that I'd need clarification on is this:
> While I can clearly see the qtdbus is the existing configure script,
> there's nothing in there regarding udisks at all. Would the omission
> of qtdbus simply cause all the udisk stuff to be disabled? Wasn't
> clear on that.
> 

It will mean that mythtv cannot communicate with the udisks service
via dbus. (or the dbus based screensaver)

tbh, i'd be surprised if gentoo still shipped udisks, it died a long
time ago and was replaced by udisks2 (which we don't support) which has
itself also been replaced.

Your analysis is correct, in that there isn't any code that requires a
udisks-dev type package, we just use what is provided by the system
via dbus.


Regards
Stuart