media-tv/xbmc feature/fix request

[krnewell]

I didn't want to submit this as a bug without at least trying to run this through the forum first.

If I emerge media-tv/xbmc with the pvr use flag I'd expect that it would emerge the PVR enabled branch, but that doesn't happen. after digging around it appears that currently only third party ebuilds would me to grab the PVR branch. I've gone down that road several times in the past and it usually just leads to a painful weekend after portage finally picks up the slack and something breaks when the two methods cross eachother.

This seems extremely misleading and has led to quite a bit of confusion as I've begun migrating from a pure mythtv household to a new blend using XBMC/openelec frontends (sorry, but mythfrontend has fallen way behind XBMC on the frontend side)

I've been a gentoo user for about 6 years now, but I haven't participated in the forum or bugzilla side much, so I'm not really sure where a feature request of this specific nature would fall.

[BT]

I believe the XBMC pvr use flag only enables MythTV front-end functionality. If you want to track the PVR branch without using third party ebuilds then you can simply override the git repo with the following.

/etc/portage/env/xbmc.conf

[krnewell]

Thanks for the tip. I suppose that's kind of a blended result. It's definitely outside standard operating procedure, but it's not too terribly far.

I guess that my original question still stands though. If there's a use flag called PVR and there's a branch of a project called PVR shouldn't they be the same thing? MythTV support being called PVR still sounds extremely confusing.

[Sakarias]

[j-kidd]

The official ebuild seems rather outdated in terms of PVR support. Nowadays, XBMC supports several PVR backends, and I think only the MythTV one needs MySQL to be installed.

These steps should work if you hate MySQL and use a backend other than MythTV:

1. Emerge official ebuild with -pvr and -mysql

2.