[mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

[Dan Littlejohn]

There are good guides for Gentoo installs here:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/index.php?title=HOWTO_Setup_MythTV
http://home.comcast.net/~alf_park/mythtv.html

Includes use flags and window manager opinions.

for the 15 min install there is Jarod's Guide for Red Hat, lol.
     http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php

Dan


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:26:03 -0800, Richard J. Sears
<rsears at americanis.net> wrote:
> Richard -
> 
> Thanks to you (and others) for the great feedback. I had a few more
> problems with Asterisk and the addon's :-)
> 
> Couple of quick questions. First, would you share your make.conf USE
> flags with me so I get them right the first time and second, Did you use
> KDE or Gnome..?
> 
> Thanks Again !!
> 
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:11:51 +0100
> Rickard Olsson <richie at webhackande.se> wrote:
> 
> > Richard J. Sears wrote:
> >
> > > I guess I was wondering what you Gentoo folks thought about this. Did
> > > you use  emerge to do the job, did you have trouble later patching and
> > > compiling addons or other programs to make MythTV the best it could..?
> >
> > I used the CVS just before 0.17 came out and the ebuilds when it was
> > released. The ebuilds were a no-brainer to setup. There are some USE
> > flags that you need for stuff like nuvexport and ffmpeg that I haven't
> > seen documented anywhere (aac, threads and another that I don't recall
> > right now), but other than that, no problems.
> >
> > Most other sundry files are in portage - it's possible that there's
> > something missing but I haven't found anything.
> >
> > There's been no real need for any config file management issues (MythTV
> > has just one config file AFAIK and you normally edit it through
> > mythsetup, the rest is in the database).
> >
> >
> >      / Rickard Olsson,IT-Konsult/
> >     / Telefon: +46 70 635 01 42/
> >    / http://www.webhackande.se/
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