[mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

[Scott Alfter]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:01:25AM -0800, Richard J. Sears wrote:
> Having been working with Asterisk on Gentoo for some time now I know that
> using the Gentoo method with software that changes quickly and whose
> plugins and addons require manual configs, patches and makes sometimes
> it may be easier to do everything from scratch instead of using emerge.
> 
> I guess I was wondering what you Gentoo folks thought about this. Did
> you use  emerge to do the job, did you have trouble later patching and
> compiling addons or other programs to make MythTV the best it could..?

Portage has generally done a good job of keeping up with released versions. 
For more bleeding-edge stuff (like ivtv 0.3.x or MythTV CVS), there are
ebuilds you can install in $PORTDIR_OVERLAY so that you can still have
Portage manage everything.  Everything on my MythTV box was installed
through Portage.

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