[mythtv] CVS Gentoo ebuild

[Kevin Elliott]

Another fine example of MythTV developers going against the grain :)

Come on, adopt autoconf, and a proper automated make script. I remember
Isaac once saying he thought autoconf was crap, but I've yet to understand
how it is. Furthermore, why is it almost all open source projects use it and
it isn't alright to use it for MythTV? I would think the advantages outweigh
any possible disadvantages.

Why wouldn't we want dependency library detection, header checks, and
automatic system optimization based on probing the system. I still never saw
the advantage to having to manually choose by #defines.

Kevin

Kevin Elliott
kevin at phunc.com
http://www.kevinelliott.net/


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
On Behalf Of Rob Hillis
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 7:24 PM
To: Development of mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv] CVS Gentoo ebuild

Jeremiah Morris wrote:

>
>> However, it is the only way to build Myth in parallel, which is what 
>> my original post said.
>
> Ah, I see, you're trading our user support time (and patience), and 
> the user's time (in dealing with a broken ebuild), for compilation 
> time (when it's not broken, that is). Thanks for clearing that up.

Never mind.  You're missing my point entirely.  My point was that many, 
many other packages build fine in parallel.  But never mind - I really 
don't feel like continuing an argument that isn't going anywhere.


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