[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.27 and php 7: input from gentoo users requested

[James Miller]

> On 09/03/17 23:17, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>
>> You can always remove it again once you have php 7 stabilized. Or only
>> manually remove php 5.6.30 with the -C switch. I wouldn't be surprised
>> if that also automagically would removes it from the World set. As
>> long as you do not add thousands of specific atoms I don't see how it
>> can hurt... Every time you emerge something without the -1 switch it
>> is added to World.

I've gone ahead and implemented your suggestion of using the --noreplace 
switch, Hika, which seems to have resolved the immediate problem of the 
system wanting to unmerge php 5.6.30. I remain a bit confused about the 
world set, what should/shouldn't be there, and how to clean it up if I've 
not been using the --oneshot/-1 switch very much. But I'll be turning to 
the gentoo forums to seek clarifications on that.

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:

> We've never merged the php7 changes back to fixes/0.27 for mythweb.
> That'll be why it doesn't work.

Should I be understanding from this assertion that php 7 should not be 
expected to work with 0.27 under gentoo, but only to be compatible with 
0.28? Or with the new WebFrontend or some such?