[mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

[Craig Partin]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:11:32 -0500, Jeff Simpson <llcooljeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> myth and gentoo work together beautifully :-)
> 
> The only problems I've run into are when I tried to install myth cvs
> without emerging it - it copied the include files into
> /usr/local/mythtv and it was messing up future installs once those
> includes changed. Once I cleaned those out it was fine again.
> 
> Just using the standard ebuilds works great, as does the -cvs ebuilds
> (after *slight* modification for a problem that may have just been
> me). nuvexport works great, all the dependencies are also ebuilds I
> believe. mythweb fits in with the gentoo webapp plan, however
> convoluted it may be and works fine. Ivtv ebuild works fine as well.
> 
>  - Jeff
> 
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:01:25 -0800, Richard J. Sears
> <rsears at americanis.net> wrote:
> > Hey Everyone,
> >
> > I have seen the info on installing MythTV on Gentoo and we primarily run
> > Gentoo in our production environment so I am comfortable with it, but....
> >
> > Having been working with Asterisk on Gentoo for some time now I know that
> > using the Gentoo method with software that changes quickly and whose
> > plugins and addons require manual configs, patches and makes sometimes
> > it may be easier to do everything from scratch instead of using emerge.
> >
> > I guess I was wondering what you Gentoo folks thought about this. Did
> > you use  emerge to do the job, did you have trouble later patching and
> > compiling addons or other programs to make MythTV the best it could..?
> >
> > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
> >
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I emerge everything except ivtv.  My gentoo box works beautifully. 
The only downside is compiling time.

Now how long til Jarod pops in with "I can have a red hat box up in 15
minutes?"  :)