[mythtv-users] gui and unwanted plugins

[Anthony Messina]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 09:04:50AM -0600, Anthony Messina wrote:
>> Paul Harrison wrote:
>>> Anthony Messina wrote:
>>>> axel, thanks very much for the latest rpms for myth.
>>>>
>>>> with the lastest rpm upgrades, the gui now includes the "buttons" for
>>>> all of the standard plugins (mythnews, mythweather, mythphone, etc.)
>>>>
>>>> there are many plugins that i do not want to use at this time and i was
>>>> wondering if there was a way to remove those buttons from the gui?
>>>>
>>>> previously, if i didn't want the mythweather buttons, i just didn't
>>>> install the mythweather package.  now, even though the mythweather rpm
>>>> is not installed, the button is there.  furthermore, clicking on the
>>>> button causes the frontend to close.
>>>>   
>>>>
>>> Simply remove the libmythXXX.so file(s) for the plugin(s) you don't want 
>>> from /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins where XXX is the name of the plugin.
>> that seems easy enough. did the libmythXXX.so files always belong to the
>> mythtv-frontend package as they appear to do now?
>>
>> ~]# rpm -q --file /usr/lib64/mythtv/plugins/libmythweather.so
>> mythtv-frontend-0.20-146.fc6.at
> 
> Oops, no, that's a definite packaging bug. Remove these plugins for
> now and an updated mythtv package set will have this fixed.
> 
> That's a side effect of the mythtv & mythplugin merger. During install
> and packaging of mythtv the mythplugins already exist and directories
> and wildcarding picks up too much now.

ok. sound good.  again, thank you very much.  though i don't know you
personally, my experience thus far, is that you're really on top of
things!  let the open source community appreciate that.  have a good day :)

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