[mythtv] CVS Gentoo ebuild

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Tue Jan 25 19:28:19 EST 2005


On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:24:46PM +0000, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> >Don't use broken ebuilds.  Don't report problems when using broken ebuilds.
> 
> An ebuild is fundamentally just a way to script a build.  No script 
> written yesterday can be expected to completely work tomorrow...?  

It's broken by design. Why does it list the Myth libraries individually?
The main Makefile from mythtv is perfectly capable of building the whole
package.

> As an aside, I'm not really quite sure why you don't like the gentoo 
> package manager?  It's controversial, but the nice thing about it to me 
> is that once a nice build script is generated then it's easy to run it 
> against newer versions as they are released.  In particular it's quite 

... as long as the script is well-written.


Hamish
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