[ale] MythTV InstallFest

[James Sumners]

No. I just prefer Arch for some situations. In the case of my MythTV
box, I wanted to use a distribution that started off lightweight and
would be easy to maintain. Arch does not install any frivolous
packages, and the daemon configuration system is awesome[1]. These are
probably two of the big reasons that KnoppMyth is going to migrate to
Arch.

There are only two things that I would say is "wrong" with my decision
to use Arch:

1) Arch can update a little too quickly for such a system. If you
don't keep the system up-to-date, then the next time you do a `pacman
-Syu` you could be in for a real headache.

2) I've had to build my own repository for MythTV packages. I built my
system right after MythTV 0.21 was released. The official Arch
repository was still on 0.20, and I wanted some features from 0.21.
What is further disappointing is that the maintainer for the Arch
MythTV packages doesn't seem to actually use them. He just built new
ones, and when the compiled cleanly, released them. There were some
significant changes between 0.20 and 0.21. As a result, I am positive
the MythTV packages in the Arch repository don't work correctly (based
on my reading of the PKGBUILD files).

I don't mind point 1) so much. I am quite capable of dealing with it.
It's point 2) that disappoints me. I don't _enjoy_ building all of
those packages. But I do like using Arch.



[1] -- http://tinyurl.com/hbksh

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:14 PM, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:19 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Speaking of Arch. If this is a distro you are keen on having available
>> at the festival, I will update my -fixes packages for amd64 and build
>> some for x86.
>
> I noticed that KnoppMyth is going to use Arch in the future. Is your
> use of Arch related to this in anyway?



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