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On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 20:51 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: |
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> <I posted this to getoo-media@ mut the list looks to be . . . "not-active."> |
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> I'm new to gentoo and the main reason for coming to gentoo is that I |
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> have an extra machine that I'd like to use as a DVR. Thus, I've |
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> installed mythtv. |
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> In general, the experience has been pleasant. However, I wonder about |
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> two things regarding emerge and mythtv's dependencies. The first is |
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> that mythtv failed to fully compile the first time because unzip was |
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> not installed. Next, is once mythtv finished compiling I tried to fire |
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> it up (mythtv-setup) and it was apparent that X was not installed. |
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> These are not major "problems," since gentoo seems to be a friendly |
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> distro (so far) and emerging unzip and X went/is going just fine. I |
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> just found it odd that the mythtv package didn't "make sure" unzip and |
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> X were present before it was installed. |
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> Thoughts? |
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"X" is too generic of a term but I'll assume you mean "X server"... |
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Firstly, you don't need an X server to run MythTV... some people |
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actually have the backend running headless. Second, you don't need an X |
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server locally to run X apps (for example I used to XDMCP into a |
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headless virtual machine running test instances of KDE. "ssh -X xapp" |
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is another example). |
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As for unzip, that sounds like a possible bug. I know I ran into that |
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problem with another package => bugs.gentoo.org. |
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