[mythtv-users] Can't seem to permanently delete channels

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 01/12/2011 02:05 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>> Oh, sorry, I had figured you were already aware that the visible flag
>>> does not affect LiveTV which makes it not the way to do this,
>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/466705#466705
>> You have to pick your poison here.
>>
>> Either you use the visible flag, and just make sure to avoid these
>> channels manually when using LiveTV (which most of us don't use much
>> anyway), or you need to configure mythfilldatabases to not add new
>> channels.  Either way you lose something.
>>
>> This is one area where mythtv could be better.
> or just use the --remove-new-channels flag and add new channels
> manually. I'd rather do this. overall less work.
> yes, it would be great if the "visible" flag worked for all things
> Myth, but until someone decides to code that up I'm happy with this
> solution.

http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/6714#comment:6

Mike