[mythtv-users] modernizing mythtv

[Will Dormann]

On 5/10/14, 4:21 PM, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:

> 
> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 01:30:49PM -0400, Will Dormann wrote:
>> I'm also curious about this.   mythbackend has several X library
>> dependencies, and therefore I would think that somewhere along the way
>> you'd run into trouble if they were not present.
> ...
>> $ ldd `which mythbackend` | grep X
> 
> Actually mythbackend doesn't:
> # objdump -x /usr/bin/mythbackend | grep NEEDED

> But Qt does ...


I'm not sure that I follow your logic.   By that same test, mythfrontend
doesn't need X either.  But I'm pretty sure that you can't run
mythfrontend without X.

If foo needs bar, and bar needs baz, doesn't that logically mean that
foo needs baz?   Or am I missing something?


-WD