Hi I have a fresh install of 5.5 on a Sun V100. I am attempting to install the Mediatomb package. It fails due to numerous dependency issues.
I am quite sure some of these are due to over-specifying the dependency - ie claims to require an older version, when the new one would work fine - but many others are due to dependency on X11 related stuff (X11 itself, Xau, Xrandr, Xrender, etc). As my hardware is headless, and Mediatomb is configured remotely via a web interface, I don't see why this stuff should be required. If it is, then surely there should be a part of the install process that says "you dont have the necessary hardware to install this package" and if not, there should be the option to install without any GUI related software. While part of the dependency stuff is a "bug report", the issue of requiring X related software for programs that don't need it, to run on hardware that does not support it, is not really a bug, and is not a new problem (I am sure I have moaned about this more than once in the last 10 years). I think there should be a standard solution to this problem, probably involving a flag that says "HEADLESS=YES" in a config file somewhere, which is set early in the install process - perhaps automatically on finding no graphics card installed. regards Andrew
