[mythtv-users] Multiple mythbackend processes

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 30 April 2004 02:10 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Friday 30 April 2004 13:15, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Friday 30 April 2004 12:55 pm, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 12:40:45PM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > > >>> Not my fault if you've built a normal Qt that links against X.
> > > >>
> > > >> Fair enough.  Is there some sort of abnormal Qt that doesn't
> > > >> require X11?
> > > >
> > > > Qt/Embedded.  You need DirectFB, though.
> > >
> > > In my case I'm running a frontend on the same machine and want
> > > to keep X for other stuff, so it's no loss to have stuff linked
> > > with X and not use it.  For people running a headless back end
> > > server, it seems a bit of a waste.
> >
> > Couple MBs of X libraries vs. GBs and GBs of recorded video.  I fail
> > to see how it matters in the slightest.
>
> Well, for most people I guess that's true, but in all fairness, some
> people try to get away with as small a disk as possible for their boot/
> root partition(s).  IIRC, someone had (or was trying to get) a
> bootable, working distro with Myth on a CF card.

Well, no.  This is the backend we're talking about, remember, so it has to 
store recorded programs somewhere.  If you're nfs mounting the storage 
partition, why not just net boot completely off of that same place?  
Regardless, the X libs aren't that large -- see minimyth, for example.

Isaac