[mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS

[Baudouin, Andrew]

If you manually compiled a CVS version of any software package, portage
would not know that you had it installed.  Trying to emerge a different
version of mythtv from the portage tree, for example, would stomp all over
your CVS installation.

You'd just have to do a "note to self" type of thing that you had CVS mythtv
installed and not to try to emerge it.



Andrew Baudouin
Applications Programmer
AWC, Incorporated
andrew.baudouin at awc-inc.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jens Baumeister [mailto:jens.baumeister at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:22 AM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Gentoo and CVS

Hi,

a couple of days ago, I asked about which Fedora Core version to use
with MythTV and DVB and promptly received an answer. Thanks for that.

After doing some more research I now lean towards using Gentoo instead: 

http://tinyurl.com/4lxdb makes it sound a bit easier to look out for
all the dependencies than doing everything by hand and the install
guide for Gentoo - while a bit intimidating - looks like the right mix
of geekiness and ease-of-use for me. :-)

I'm wondering, however, how well Gentoo plays with CVS versions: If I
decide later on to grab a CVS version of MyhTV, would I be able to go
back to using one from the portage tree if I wanted to, or would that
be as difficult as trying to mix installs from most of the binary
package managers with manual compiles?

Thanks any insight.

Jens