On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:01:25AM -0800, Richard J. Sears wrote: > Having been working with Asterisk on Gentoo for some time now I know that > using the Gentoo method with software that changes quickly and whose > plugins and addons require manual configs, patches and makes sometimes > it may be easier to do everything from scratch instead of using emerge. > > 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..?
Portage has generally done a good job of keeping up with released versions. For more bleeding-edge stuff (like ivtv 0.3.x or MythTV CVS), there are ebuilds you can install in $PORTDIR_OVERLAY so that you can still have Portage manage everything. Everything on my MythTV box was installed through Portage. _/_ / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail) (IIGS( http://alfter.us/ Top-posting! \_^_/ rm -rf /bin/laden >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?
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