[mythtv-users] Gentoo / MythTV question

[Brian Wood]

On Nov 12, 2006, at 7:55 AM, Nedim Cholich wrote:

>
>
> Of course if you wanted to live dangerously you could just put an
> "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS= "~(arch)" directive into your /etc/make.conf file,
> but that would cause *all* unstable packages to be accepted.
>
> I do this on my laptop, but not myth boxen. The problem is that  
> once you go unmasked like this it's very hard to go back to stable  
> without massive recompile. One of the main arguments people cite  
> against Gentoo is the frequency of compiling. But if you stick with  
> stable, it's really not that bad. Anyway... I'm monologing...

It can be not just difficult but outright impossible to "go back" if  
the unstable build includes an unstable glibc, you would essentially  
have to start over again from scratch.

Having to compile everything is the main benefit of Gentoo IMHO, as  
you get things compiled the way you want them, though it can get a  
bit tedious for something like KDE :-)

>
> You probably want to make sure your system is up to date before
> installing Myth:
>
> emerge --sync
> emerge -avuDN world
>
>
> Emerge esearch and then run esync instead of emerge --sync. This  
> will cache the metadata after each sync so that you can run esearch  
> which is the same as emerge -s but instant.

Didn't know that, thanks.

Anyway, this isn't a Gentoo list, so we digress :-)