[mythtv-users] MythtTV on Gentoo: resources?

[James Miller]

Coupla questions about the Gentoo installation procedures.

First, on Mythbuntu there was always a pre-created mythtv user. You were 
expected to add your own user and not to operate as mythtv. I gather from 
looking over the notes that this additional user is not needed under a 
Gentoo MythTV installation, correct? Whatever unpriviledged user the one 
carrying out the installation adds will suffice?

On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, david brooke wrote:

Regarding step 8.:

> 8. Allow remote frontends access: (See example using mythtv as user, mythtv
> as password and root as user, 1234 as password)
>
> # mysql -u root -p1234
> MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL ON mythconverg.* TO 'mythtv'@'192.168.97.%'
> IDENTIFIED BY 'mythtv';
> ***Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)***output only!
> MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
> ***Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)***output only!
> MariaDB [(none)]> exit
> ***Bye***output only!

This will be a combined FE/BE. No remote access is planned nor, I believe, 
will be needed. This step, then, can be eliminated for my purposes?

Finally, will the directory structure for MythTV be essentially the same 
under Gentoo as it was under Mythbuntu? I.e., with most media, including 
recorded television, being under /var/lib/mythtv? Wondering about that 
because that's typically where, in the past, I've mounted my large hard 
drive.

Thanks.