[mythtv-users] Old topic rehashed - X-less backend?

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu Jun 10 12:04:13 EDT 2004


On Thursday 10 June 2004 11:37 am, Stephen Tait wrote:
> I've seen this crop up a few times on the list, with a myriad of replies,
> none of which have really answered my questions, so I thought I'd pose them
> more verbosely here.
<snip>
> The question I really want to know is, is it at all possible (or planned as
> possible) to be able to run the entire backend suite on a headless box?
> There was talk of a webmin module in the past, but I don't know if this was
> planned as just an add-on to the standard backend (hence requiring X and
> Qt) or as an implementation of the backend without any of the X stuff.

No.

There's really no reason to -- You're talking about a few MB of space used for 
the X/Qt libraries vs. many GB for recordings.

Isaac


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