Bug 69491

Summary:	media-tv/mythtv-0.16 requires media-tv/xmltv for proper operation (missing dependency?)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Duncan Hill <gentoo-bugs>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Television related Applications in Gentoo's Portage <media-tv>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Duncan Hill 2004-10-30 01:39:49 UTC

When MythTV wants to get the channel listings, it uses scripts from the xmltv package.  There is no dependency on xmltv, so the channel listing action fails.  Google is then required to find the tv_grab_* scripts, which finally point one at xmltv.  DEPENDing on xmltv will increase the dependencies of mythtv by ~40 perl, tk and other packages.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-04 16:08:04 UTC

Mythtv is more than just watching tv. I'd imagine all the modules other than
watching and recording tv don't require xmltv and it's huge list of
dependencies. Not to mention the fact that mythtv can now grab listings for
north america from zap2it direct without requiring xmltv. Also a frontend only
machine (that someone still wants to install all of mythtv for) or a secondary
backend doesn't need it.

I will however add a note to the postinst message about xmltv.