[mythtv-users] Need advice on gentoo USE flags for mythtv

[Greg Mitchell]

Carl Youngblood wrote:
> Can anyone give me a good head start on which gentoo USE flags I
> should enable for mythtv?  I'm new to gentoo and there are a ton of
> flags and I'm not sure which ones to use.
>   
For your reference, the only use flags I have enabled on my MythTV 
install (done via portage) are "alsa dvd ieee1394 ivtv lirc opengl perl 
xvmc"

I've got a fair number more than that for various other ebuilds, but I 
find the best way to work with Gentoo is to do an "emerge -pv" and then 
see what use flags an ebuild supports - then I decide what needs to be 
in and add it if necessary.

Here's my complete list, in case you care (note that I'm doing all sorts 
of things on my myth box - mail, self web hosting etc.)

USE="X gtk gtk2 kde mysql apache2 dvd lirc dvdr cdr encode imap php 
samba xine xvid xvidinfo nvidia avi mpeg transcode theora mjpeg aac 
ieee1394 oss dba -recode session cli xml wxgtk1 threads -nls flv 
examples xvmc video_cards_nvidia unicode bash-completion nptl nptlonly 
posix ivtv"

I find the Gentoo Myth ebuild to be fantastic and convenient.

Greg