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

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 01/12/2011 03:46 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>   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
> That doesn't really add much to the discussion beyond stating that
> this is a known issue.

No, it states that it's a known fact that it was designed this way, and 
that it will not be changed without discussion--which I thought 
important since people were talking about, "until someone decides to 
code that up."

Mike