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kodi-gbm requires kodi-x11? - MrTarantula - 2018-09-14
I switched my HTPC (Ubuntu 18.04 x64, Intel i3-3225) over from X11 to GBM nightlies. It works great, but I noticed that kodi-x11 is installed as a dependency. Is this dependency necessary?
bash:$ apt-cache depends kodi-gbm
kodi-gbm
Depends: kodi-x11
Depends: kodi
Depends: libasound2
Depends: libass9
Depends: libavahi-client3
Depends: libavahi-common3
...
RE: kodi-gbm requires kodi-x11? - FernetMenta - 2018-09-14
why do you switch to gbm? you should have good reasons because quality of video is not as good as on X11
RE: kodi-gbm requires kodi-x11? - MrTarantula - 2018-09-14
Mostly curiosity, but I also wanted to see if there would be a noticeable difference in resource consumption without X11. About 90% of the videos I tried played without issue, but there was some stuttering and artifacts in a few videos. Not much difference resource-wise.
RE: kodi-gbm requires kodi-x11? - a1rwulf - 2018-09-30
(2018-09-14, 17:06)MrTarantula Wrote: I switched my HTPC (Ubuntu 18.04 x64, Intel i3-3225) over from X11 to GBM nightlies. It works great, but I noticed that kodi-x11 is installed as a dependency. Is this dependency necessary?Not sure if we'd actually need to rely on kodi-x11, but I guess it's the case because GBM with OpenGL actually needs X11 as libGL.so depends on X11.
bash:$ apt-cache depends kodi-gbm
kodi-gbm
Depends: kodi-x11
Depends: kodi
Depends: libasound2
Depends: libass9
Depends: libavahi-client3
Depends: libavahi-common3
...
I've been working a bit to sort this out, but it's non-trivial (although it might happen in the future).
RE: kodi-gbm requires kodi-x11? - Rechi - 2018-09-30
(2018-09-30, 10:18)a1rwulf Wrote: Not sure if we'd actually need to rely on kodi-x11, but I guess it's the case because GBM with OpenGL actually needs X11 as libGL.so depends on X11.
I've been working a bit to sort this out, but it's non-trivial (although it might happen in the future).
That's not the reason, reason is that kodi-x11 has packaged some files which kodi-gbm and kodi-wayland need too. I've looked at the packaging and those files are usr/bin/kodi, usr/bin/kodi-standalone and usr/lib/*/kodi/system.
RE: kodi-gbm requires kodi-x11? - a1rwulf - 2018-09-30
Ok, thx rechi for clarifying.
RE: kodi-gbm requires kodi-x11? - wsnipex - 2018-09-30
yep, to get rid of it, I'll have to split off libs in their own package
RE: kodi-gbm requires kodi-x11? - a1rwulf - 2018-09-30
I wouldn't consider it a priority, though