[mythtv-users] gentoo cvs ebuilds

rwk at americom.com rwk at americom.com
Sat Feb 21 04:06:50 EST 2004


> > The reason the cvs ebuilds were removed was so that people would be able 
> > to compile with debugging if needed.  If people really need a fix, then 
> > they should know that cvs is a development version. There is more 
> > expected of a user that runs cvs. Good bug reports with backtraces and 
> > such. If a cvs ebuild was available there would inevitably be people who 
> > don't know how to do that, and therefore not able to provide any info on 
> > the bugs.
> 
> Yes, all true, only people who take the time to understand the problem to
> should start running latest CVS.
> 
> > If you want cvs it's not really very hard to get without using 
> > portage. Instruction on downloading the source from cvs are in the docs 
> > on the website.
> 
> Some people like that there whole system in managed by packagemanager. btw,
> to the original poster, AFAIK there's some EPIA MythTV site which holds
> unofficial MythTV ebuilds (you will need to download and emerge them by
> hand). They have extra EPIA stuff, but can be used to build a generic
> MythTV build too.

Got those...  but they removed the mythtv-cvs ebuilds.  ):


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