Re: MythTV Dependencies

On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 09:34 -0500, Brian Long wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone else has tried installing MythTV on a
> bare-bones F14 install.  I'm playing with an 8GB USB stick, so I
> installed Fedora minimal and I'm building from there.  When I
> installed mythtv, it didn't bring in the required fonts for the
> themes, so when I try to start mythfrontend, it complains about
> missing "Arial" and a few other things, then exits.
> 
> It appears to me that a certain assumption was made on requirements
> when I look at the rpm -qR of the mythtv* RPMs; they don't require
> basic things like xorg*, fonts, etc.  Is this because all the
> requirements change names between RHEL & Fedora and having the logic
> inside the .spec would not be much fun?

The answer is mixed, there can be two issues:

A) the dependencies were missed, for example certain required fonts
   count as bugs here, if you can find out which fonts were needed by
   which (sub)packages we can fix this.

B) The dependencies are not hard ones, for example you could be running
   mythtv completely on a headless system and only connecting remotely
   to it, so many xorg-x11 packages would be missing (not the libs
   though). Compare this to other packages like firefox/openoffice that
   also usually run on the local system but would not setup dependencies
   for pulling in X11 or similar packages.

It like to fix anything related to A, and for B you could create
yum/repomd groups similar to say @gnome-desktop, @kde-desktop or
@web-server, e.g. @mythtv-desktop and @mythtv-server. I would love to
have comps*.xml at ATrpms to allow user to simply

		yum install @mythtv-desktop

and live happily ever after. :)
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