Harry Coin <harrycoin@???> writes:
> On 2/3/2012 3:18 PM, Tom Furie wrote:
>> 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
>>
> Thanks, indeed I tried that. dpkg -r mysql-server-xxx.... Whereafter
> I'm told by apt that my installation is 'broken' needing -f to
> reinstall mysql-server to 'fix' a 'broken dependency'. Strangely,
> mythtv pre-depends on mysql-server. So if one wants to run the
> frontend on a system that's also a slave backend, myth forces mysql
> server, which I don't think it should. Why does mythtv pre-depend
> on mysql-server?
mythtv is a meta package. From the description :
,----
| This package will install a complete MythTV client/server environment on a
| single system.
`----
The frontend package don't install a mysql server.
Christian
