[mythtv-users] building mythtv w/ Fedora 26 - RPM Fusion package dependencies

[John Pilkington]

On 30/07/17 11:15, evade. wrote:
> On 28/07/17 22:44, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 5:05 AM, evade. <evade at internode.on.net 
>> <mailto:evade at internode.on.net>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Hi Richard,
>>
>>     Thanks so much for maintaining the mythtv packages on RPM fusion!  I
>>     rely on them as I don't have time to maintain packages myself (and
>>     don't want to get stuck on old software!).
>>
>>     I wouldn't be running mythtv today if it weren't for you - I have
>>     limited time and would have just bought a PVR.
>>
>>
>>     Could you please answer a question about the dependences of the
>>     packages?
>>     I'd prefer not to have a number of addons included but if I try to
>>     remove them dnf wants to remove all of mythtv.  Are they incorrectly
>>     marked as dependencies of the main mythtv packages?
>>
>>     For example, I'd prefer not to have the following items because the
>>     clutter the menus (my family is not used to having them) and I try
>>     to remove software I never use:
>>     mythweather
>>     mythnews
>>     mythgame
>>     mythzoneminder
>>     mythnetvision
>>
>>
>> There are two meta packages, mythtv and mythplugins, both of which 
>> will pull in all the plugins. You'll need to remove both of those and 
>> dnf may try to erase the plugins too but you should be able to just 
>> install the plugins you want afterwards.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Richard
>>
> 
> Uh, Richard, it's trying to remove an awful log more than just 
> mythplugins and mythtv.
> Even if I 'mark remove' the plugins metapackage, then try to remove one 
> individual plugin it ends up at the same 181 packages!
> 
> Do you know how I could avoid removing all these additional packages in 
> order to just remove a few?
> 
> Thanks!
>

  > sudo dnf erase mythplugins-0.28.1-3.fc25.x86_64


The vast majority of those packages aren't going to impose themselves on 
your family.  I'm a little surprised that your command wanted to remove 
everything.  I would try 'sudo rpm -e --nodeps mythplugins'

and 'sudo dnf install yumex-dnf' makes managing this sort of thing much 
easier.

John P