Re: mythtv slaves not dependent on mysql-server

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 01:47:53PM -0600, Harry Coin wrote:
> Thanks for doing all this packaging! Notice that mythtv-backend
> when running as a slave backend uses only mysql - client. There
> should be an additional package, mythtv-slave perhaps the name,
> that is exactly as the mythtv-package but does not depend on
> mysql-server. The reason is that it is a waste of resources to
> load and run a mysql server on a slave backend that never makes use
> of mysql-server. Thanks!

Mythtv-backend doesn't depend on mysql-server, the association is only
"recommends". This means you can deselect mysql-server if you don't want
to install it without any problem.

Cheers,
Tom

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