[mythtv-users] SchedulesDirect Changes

[Larry Kennedy]

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

>
> On 10/4/2014 5:38 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Brian J. Murrell <brian at interlinx.bc.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> But Larry, if you are not interested in compiling, maybe you ought to
>>> rethink your choice of CentOS for MythTV also.  I.e. apply the right
>>> tool to the job at hand.
>>>
>>>  I'd have to agree with this.  I just don't see something like MythTV
>> as the target audience for something like CentOS.
>>
>> Now, if you were going to run CentOS as a host and then run something
>> like a MythTV appliance distro in a container underneath it, then I'd
>> be saying that you're more in the target audience for CentOS.  Then
>> again, if hosting diverse containers is your goal, then something like
>> CoreOS could be better still.  CentOS is a bit more about stability
>> and supportability than having a rich package database, especially for
>> things like multimedia.
>>
>>
> What exactly do you two mean by this? MythTV is the target or CentOS is
> the target? Of what?
>
> I happen to host MythTV on CentOS. Finding the right repo for packages has
> been a problem. It was ATrpms. And now that some of the users have stepped
> up it still is.
>
> Why does it sound like the stability of Red Hat/CentOS is a *bad* thing
> for you? It sounds like you want to target the ever shifting sands of
> something like Fedora. A distro that demands updating once or twice a year.
>
>
This is exactly why I switched from Fedora to CentOS.  I was growing tired
of the constantly evolving baseline that required me to keep up or get left
behind.   I wanted something more stable.


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