[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.21

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:02 PM, ryan patterson wrote:

> The problem is I am not interested in almost everything you listed.   
> All the stuff you listed make using mythbuntu into a huge project  
> because I have to figure out what weird setup the mythbuntu guys  
> chose to use.  -trunk and -fixes I could care less.  I only want the  
> stable release.  That is why I choose to use ubuntu.  I don't want  
> to deal with different SVN versions etc.  Why do they waste time  
> working on a dedicated mythbuntu LiveCD when the official ubuntu  
> liveCD works just fine?  I find MCC is annoying to use and almost  
> always slower then doing the task by hand.  The mythbuntu guys try  
> to hide everything from the user for no good reason.  like when I  
> try to run 'mythtv-setup' it actually runs a script that kills and  
> starts processes without asking me first.  Same thing with running  
> mythfrontend.  Why hide it from the user by calling it  
> 'mythfrontend.real'?  These hidden scripts don't make MythTV easier  
> to use.  They make it more difficult to use because MythTV on  
> Unbuntu is different from every other MythTV in the world.  So any  
> instructions found in an on-line forum wont work correctly etc.

You can probably just not use it, then. I don't.