Running VDR without LIRC?

[Roman Müllenschläder]

Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2007 schrieb Thomas Schmidt:
> Hi
>
> * Roman Müllenschläder schrieb am 21.03.07, um 09:35 Uhr:
> > In earlier versions there were virtual packages vdr-kbd, vdr-lirc, etc.
> > and update-alternatives to choose between them.
>
> It is still possible to use "update-alternatives --config vdr" to
> select which version you want to use, the packages just were merged
> into one because since vdr 1.2.6-10 one binary can provide all input
> variants, so there was no need to ship 4 different binaries.
>
> > This has changed nowadays (don't know when cause I can't find a changelog
> > entry to that) and there is no more vdr-lirc, vdr-kbd, ... only vdr.
>
> It was changed in vdr 1.2.6-10 to reduce build-time and overall
> package size. But as i said, you should still be able to use
> update-alternatives to switch between the 4 version. (We still ship
> the scripts vdr-kbd, vdfr-daemon, vdr-lirc and vdr-rcu which call vdr
> with the appropriate options.)

Yeah, I admit you're right ... for the debian packages ;)

But that's a point where Tobi's packages do differ from the debian ones! 
Thought they were closer to each other than they are ...

So, for to give a user a simple instruction on how to 'disable' lirc-input, 
one has to know what packages he has installed ;(

Cause of the debian packages beeing less up-to-date as Tobi's are, 
adding '--lirc=/dev/null' to OPTIONS in 'default' works with _both_, 
cause 'vdr-lirc' is the 'alterntive' with highest priority, am I correct?

Most of the VDR users I know are using Tobi's repository cause of later 
versions and more plugins available ...

Thought debian inherits Tobi's efforts somehow!? They doesn't, right?

Lg
Roman