[mythtv] Help needed for RPM Fusion package modernizaton

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Jul 30 18:40:15 UTC 2012


On 07/18/2012 09:54 AM, Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:
> On 07/18/2012 09:18 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>> - What components of mythtv use HOME and for what purposes.
>
> As far as I know HOME is only used when MYTHCONFDIR isn't set. It's
> used to create a myth configuration directory at $HOME/.mythtv

Note, though, that HOME may be used by various scripts that are run by 
the MythTV frontend and/or backend.  Therefore, you really should 
specify a HOME dir that's writable by the user running the application.

Mike


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