[mythtv-users] Subtitle then Description duplication check giving surprising results

[Mike Perkins]

Jason Chambers wrote:
> On 16/10/2010 12:14, Mike Perkins wrote:
>> It is the *only* thing in this host installed into /usr/local/bin. I 
>> decided that changing the PATH in /etc/init.d files to include 
>> /usr/local/bin might introduce instabilities I didn't want, so I 
>> manually modified the xmltv Makefile to install (overwrite) into 
>> /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin and rebuilt it.
> 
> Just curious as to why you are expecting instabilities?
> 
> I could understand your caution if you had been experimenting previously
> and installed other things into /usr/local (e.g. myth and transcode etc)
> that are either old or broken and you had just left them rather than
> cleaning up.
> 
> But as you say xmltv is the only thing in /usr/local.
> 
> Adding extra directories to the beginning of PATH is a common way of
> overriding which locations are searched first, and /usr/local is a
> proper location for administrator compiled/create programs.
> 
Yeah, I know. But I just *know* that something would have happened if I had 
added /usr/local/bin to the path. Been there, got bitten by that. Rather 
concentrate on more important problems.

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Mike Perkins