[mythtv-users] Upgrading to .20.0.2 using source

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun Aug 26 12:25:59 UTC 2007


On 08/25/2007 03:05 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Aug 25, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
>   
>> Why did you need to install lirc from source? Do the lirc packages
>> need some love (which you could give them? :)
>>     
> I usually install lirc from source because it's much easier to set up  
> that way.  The packages I've seen don't include the menu-driven  
> configuration script.

As that's just a compile-type configuration script, why is that useful? 
Don't the packages just give you all the modules/drivers/utils?  And,
with either, you still need to create the lircd.conf and ~/.lircrc, right?

Mike


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