[mythtv] Gentoo & MythTV

Mike Payson mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Tue, 24 Dec 2002 01:03:29 -0800


You're right, QT requires X. Oh, well. The main reason to not install X is the 
compile time, but I suppose I can let it run all night. Should be done by the 
morning anyway...

On Monday 23 December 2002 11:41 pm, Tony Clark wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 December 2002 06.17, Mike Payson wrote:
> > Well, after all that I decided to go back to Gentoo after all... Debian
> > looks nice, but I really don't feel like learning another distro right
> > now... I'd rather focus on this project. I'm comfortable with Gentoo,
> > it's package management rocks, and it should be the fastest as well.
> >
> > So what are the recommended USE tags for MythTV. I'm leaning towards not
> > installing X. I have a Linux workstation with X, so I might as well not
> > install it on my MythTV box (It's not required, right?).
>
> I take it mythtv cvs works without X now.  I'm not sure qt will build
> without X being on the box though. emerge -p qt will tell you of course.
>
> > So far I have:
> > USE="qt matrox mysql"
> >
> > Anything else? oss? alsa? fbcon? svga?
>
> you may want to add them, it won't hurt, some are already defined in
> make.global
>
>
> tony

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