[mythtv] backend dependency on X

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Fri Mar 21 17:04:02 EST 2003


On Friday 21 March 2003 04:54 pm, Chris Palmer wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I can't help but notice that with all the effort to make
> the frontend and backend separate, that a new dependency
> to X was recently added to the backend:  the GUI setup.
>
> I'd really like to see a 100% command-line backend install
> and configure, so that I can build a headless tuner farm
> one of these days.  :)

setup depends on the x libraries being installed, not on an xserver running.  
You can quite easily export the display to show elsewhere.

Isaac



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