The gentoo ebuilds don't play together. This has been a problem
with every automated distribution system I've ever tried (portage, cpan, etc).
Very sloppy.
In general I find they work very well. The problem you are experiencing sounds like you are installing different version of mythweb and mythbackend.
The advantage of ebuilds is that they track all the cruft that is installed. In my case I build a few of the myth modules from source because I have some private patches in my tree, but the rest I install via my own cvs ebuilds. This means that when I upgrade from a 0.17 ish cvs to a 0.18ish cvs then all the old libs are removed and new ones built. Very useful in preventing problems due to old libs lying around
There are a few other projects that I like to patch, for example I like to patch my Asterisk phone system with some UK specific fixes. I just create a slightly modified version of the ebuild which applies my patch and now I have basically the advantages of RPM packaging with the flexibility of source download and install. Takes me just a few mins to upgrade to the latest version of Asterisk with all my patches applied.
I was under the assumption "ebuilds" were part of gentoo.
Is there an "ebuild" that's not part of gentoo?
The system which parses ebuilds is part of gentoo. However, there is no enforcement engine which stops you writing a text file with .ebuild as it's name no.
Actually I just realised what I am writing.... If you don't even know what an ebuild is then I think I'm wasting my time. Go read the very explicit docs at http://www.gentoo.org. The docs and forums there are extremely good and have the answers to a huge number of linux issues that people face in all distros
Byee
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