Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean / db & php loop

[Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:26 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/31/2009 04:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> ...
>>    If it matters this is a PPC Mac Mini used as a MythTV backend
>> server...
>
> Oops, I forgot to ask:
>
> It may be very important -- but I don't have a clue what a MythTV
> server does or what packages it depends on.
>
> Does your server use something like Apache/php to do the serving,
> and do you really need php to do it?

MythTV is digital video recording software, allowing
watching/recording of things through a tv tuner card, and even
pause/resume of a 'live stream'.

It's heavily dependent on mysql, as I recall, and has the option to
use Apache+PHP to serve up a web based interface, MythWeb, as is
mentioned in the OPs reply to your question. It, however, doesn't use
php's ability to interface with berkley db in any way I'm aware of, so
it should safe to merely rebuild php without the berkdb use flag, then
remove the db package.

-- 
Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy

p.s. - for the OP, php is a scripting language that's most commonly
used to provide dynamic web content, and as MythWeb is written in
php... ;)