[mythtv-users] modernizing mythtv - and now OT

[jedi]

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 01:49:06PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/10/2014 10:56 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> >Sunday, May 11, 2014, 4:16:24 AM, you wrote:
> >>On 11 May 2014, at 2:53 am, someone wrote:

[deletia]

> And, if you're not running an X server on the backend system, X is
> not taking up either memory or processor resources.  So, the only
> resource that's "wasted" by MythTV's reliance upon the Qt C++
> development framework (which requires X libraries) is hard drive
> space required for the X libraries--which is a tiny pittance of
> space (approximately 10MB)--especially when compared to the ~1GB
> required for the Qt libraries themselves.
> 
> Note, too, that I recently bought a 3TB HDD for $99.99.  At that
> price, those 10MB of space used by installing the X libraries cost
> me approximately $0.00035 (and the 1GB of Qt cost me $0.035).  I'd
> argue that's not wasting too much.

    Even if you are running a similarlly cheap SSD, the storage 
overhead of having X libraries sitting around is too small to worry
about. A regular desktop distribution (not at all optimized for saving
space) with MythTV and dev tools installed on it will still clock in at 
less than 8G.