[mythtv-users] MythTV integration with Pluto ? Changing MythTV version/s

[Dave Sherohman]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 02:15:27PM +1000, Buzz wrote:
> 	"You really need to use our own distribution because..." (based on
> debian sarge)
> 	"We built \"wrappers\" for all of them"
> 	"If you use the vanilla packages from, say Fedora, none of that will
> work"
> 
> However, they also say:
> 	"In very rare cases, we need to make our own version of a package
> that replaces the one in Debian. But we avoid that whenever possible, and
> instead will re-work our wrappers so that we can stay current with the
> "stock" version. Any such changes are trivial, and therefore you should see
> no difference between Pluto's Debian mirror and the official one."
> 
> (all quotes from pages on either plutohome.org or plutohome.com).

This isn't really anything you need to worry about.  It's not any
kind of shady deal, just a way of saying "our stuff is Debian-based,
so all the Red Hat-based packages/howtos out there won't work with
it" in a way that will be clear to people who aren't aware that all
distros are not created identical.

Not quite sure what the "wrappers" bit actually means, though.

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