Re: [gentoo-user] Stable MythTV removed from portage?

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 13:51:24 -0700
Mark Knecht wrote:

> On 7/2/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk> wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:30, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > Again, it seems to make little sense to me.
> >
> > You don't want to upgrade because mythtv is a pain in the butt to upgrade. Now
> > imagine what it's like to maintain it... ;) I don't know more than you do
> > about this but I could imagine they wanted to lower the number of ebuilds
> > that they have to maintain...
> >
> > --
> > Bo Andresen
> 
> Yeah, I understand, and you are probably right. But mythtv-0.18.1
> hasn't been changing. I don't do software so I don't understand the
> word 'maintain'. I'm sure it's a drag and this is easier on them. I
> just wish the devs would have a bit more compassion for those of use
> out here wiht families we're trying to keep happy with these toys! ;-)
> 
> Anyway, I just brought down the 0.18 ebuild and built a digest but
> it's complaining about missing patches so I'll see if I can't figure
> that out.
> 
> If this is painful enough I guess they'll force me to upgrade anyway,
> won't they? ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark

If it is so stable and you have it on 5 machines then why are you
wanting to install it again?

Actually 0.19 has quite a lot of improvements.
-- 
Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>


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