[mythtv-users] MythTV without dbus?

[Mike Thomas]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:49:57 -0400
Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm running MythTV 0.27.6 under Gentoo. The Gentoo ebuild has always
> required QtDBus (dev-qt/qtdbus). As a result I've always ended up with
> dbus installed, however I've never even started the dbus service.
> 
> What actually got me looking at this was the fact that I recently
> tried removing the udisks requirement (recently added to the Gentoo
> ebuild when DVD support was in use), and found that DVD playback
> worked perfectly fine. I think that's also related to dbus in that (I
> think) it only affects use of the UDisks DBus service(?) that I don't
> use.
> 
> Looking at the configure script, it appears to check for QtDBus
> support but doesn't in fact mandate it. Is QtDBus a hard requirement
> for MythTV?

Dear Tom,

QT will compile without dbus. Use the configure option -no-dbus when
compiling QT. MythTV works fine with such a QT.

Mike