[MrTarantula]

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

  ...

[FernetMenta]

why do you switch to gbm? you should have good reasons because quality of video is not as good as on X11

[MrTarantula]

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.

[a1rwulf]

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

  ...

 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).

[Rechi]

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.

[a1rwulf]

Ok, thx rechi for clarifying.

[wsnipex]

yep, to get rid of it, I'll have to split off libs in their own package

[a1rwulf]

I wouldn't consider it a priority, though