No, I guess I didnt make my idea very clear.
An ideal way to install mythtv would be for the user to install his distro of choice, then download the mythtv _gui_ installer which walks the user through every aspect of the install. This mythtv installer then downloads and compiles, and makes work, everything necessary. From remote, to tv guide, to sound card checks. The whole nine yards. This way, the user gets to use the distro of his choice, instead of being stuck with a proprietary distro.
Knoppmyth is nice, however trying to make it do anything but mythtv is completley unsupported, and in not so many words, I was told I was stupid for even trying to use it for anything but mythtv.
I believe mythtv needs to rip a page from gentoo. Gentoo now has a GTK gui installer which makes Gentoo pretty painless to install.
Instead of having 34021 new "proprietary" mythtv distros, why not build a GUI package, like gentoo does, and walk you through every aspect of the install, downloading and compiling the sources based on your needs?
This man will be missed even by the ignorant people who crack jokes about his death. He has done so much for so many, and loved every minute of his life. There are some people that this world really is better off WITH.
Steve was one of them.
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No, I guess I didnt make my idea very clear. An ideal way to install mythtv would be for the user to install his distro of choice, then download the mythtv _gui_ installer which walks the user through every aspect of the install. This mythtv installer then downloads and compiles, and makes work, everything necessary. From remote, to tv guide, to sound card checks. The whole nine yards. This way, the user gets to use the distro of his choice, instead of being stuck with a proprietary distro. Knoppmyth is nice, however trying to make it do anything but mythtv is completley unsupported, and in not so many words, I was told I was stupid for even trying to use it for anything but mythtv.
I believe mythtv needs to rip a page from gentoo. Gentoo now has a GTK gui installer which makes Gentoo pretty painless to install. Instead of having 34021 new "proprietary" mythtv distros, why not build a GUI package, like gentoo does, and walk you through every aspect of the install, downloading and compiling the sources based on your needs?
This man will be missed even by the ignorant people who crack jokes about his death. He has done so much for so many, and loved every minute of his life. There are some people that this world really is better off WITH. Steve was one of them.