[mythtv-users] Do you build mythtv from source, and why?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Mar 29, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Mark Lord wrote:

> On 11-03-29 03:17 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>> On Mar 29, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Doug Lytle wrote:
>> 
>>> Mark Lord wrote:
>>>> Q: Do you (re)build mythtv from source code? If so, why?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Because I'm impatient and waiting for the maintainers to build packages 
>>> or implement fixes drives me crazy!
>> 
>> Does it count as "building from source" if I build that source into
>> binary packages to install on all my systems?
> 
> 
> Sounds like BIY to me!  Absolutely.

I that case, the "why" is because I'm building these packages for
other folks to use too, via RPM Fusion, and I think for any system
where I want actual maintainability, mixing packaged installs with
source-based installs is generally a BAD idea. Note though that the
builds I'm using are for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 these days, but
the same srpm gets pushed into RPM Fusion's build system to spit
out packages for Fedora.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com