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