According to the mythtv.org documentation you are not required to install mysql on a machine running only a remote mythfrontend :- http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.5 (See :- Manually building Mythtv - frontened only configuration) However when I attempt to emerge mythfrontend it wants 'qt' re-installed with 'mysql' support added to make.conf. If I re-emerge qt with mysql support it then emerges 'mysql' first which mythfrontened shouldn't need. I already have qt installed without mysql support which is all I believed was neccessary. Any ideas ? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge mythfrontend 2. 3. Actual Results: >>> md5 src_uri ;-) mythtv-0.12.tar.bz2 * Qt is missing MySQL support. Please add * 'mysql' to your USE flags, and re-emerge Qt. !!! ERROR: media-tv/mythfrontend-0.12 failed. !!! Function pkg_setup, Line 36, Exitcode 0 !!! Qt needs mysql support Expected Results: emerged without mysql installed.
Correction: it says: You do NOT need the MySQL *server* installed on your remote frontend. Mysql support in qt is absolutely required because it needs to contact the master database to know where the backends are. Gentoo doesn't have separate package for the mysql client and server. See bug 12499.
