[mythtv-users] gui and unwanted plugins

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 09:04:50AM -0600, Anthony Messina wrote:
> Paul Harrison wrote:
> > Anthony Messina wrote:
> >> axel, thanks very much for the latest rpms for myth.
> >>
> >> with the lastest rpm upgrades, the gui now includes the "buttons" for
> >> all of the standard plugins (mythnews, mythweather, mythphone, etc.)
> >>
> >> there are many plugins that i do not want to use at this time and i was
> >> wondering if there was a way to remove those buttons from the gui?
> >>
> >> previously, if i didn't want the mythweather buttons, i just didn't
> >> install the mythweather package.  now, even though the mythweather rpm
> >> is not installed, the button is there.  furthermore, clicking on the
> >> button causes the frontend to close.
> >>   
> >>
> > Simply remove the libmythXXX.so file(s) for the plugin(s) you don't want 
> > from /usr/lib/mythtv/plugins where XXX is the name of the plugin.
> 
> that seems easy enough. did the libmythXXX.so files always belong to the
> mythtv-frontend package as they appear to do now?
> 
> ~]# rpm -q --file /usr/lib64/mythtv/plugins/libmythweather.so
> mythtv-frontend-0.20-146.fc6.at

Oops, no, that's a definite packaging bug. Remove these plugins for
now and an updated mythtv package set will have this fixed.

That's a side effect of the mythtv & mythplugin merger. During install
and packaging of mythtv the mythplugins already exist and directories
and wildcarding picks up too much now.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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