[mythtv-users] MythtTV on Gentoo: resources?

[James Miller]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2015, Karl Newman wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Tuesday, March 24, 2015, 7:55:16 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>
>> There is no user created. It's up to you to do it as you want it.
>> That said, it IS wise to create a special user to run the backend and
>> the frontend. You don't want to run it as root and (at least I) don't
>> want to run under my own account.
>> You need to make that user member of the video, cdrom, etc group.

Based on this input, I went ahead and created a user named mythtv and 
added that user to the indicated group. Yet Karl now interjects:

> The mythtv ebuild does create a mythtv user to run everything under.

My MythTV compilation finally finished but I've not so far managed to run 
it (still trying to get X compiled and operational). If Karl is correct, 
do I need to take some action regarding the mythtv user I created, such as 
deleting that account? Are any sort of conflicts or confusions in store as 
a result of both me and the MythTV ebuild creating a mythtv user account? 
Clarifications will be appreciated. Thanks.