On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 07:07 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > Thanks for the responses! > > I'll submit the bug report for the unzip thing. Although, is a bug > report warranted if the issue only occurred once? I'd rather not try > to replicate the problem by reinstalling mythtv (it takes a fair > amount of time). > It only occurred to you once, but you're not the only person who uses Gentoo ;)
> As far as the X server thing goes, the reason I brought it up was > muthtv-setup looked as though it needed it. That is, when I tried to > start mythtv-setup at the console command line, it wouldn't b/c it > claimed to not have access to the X server. It would start in an X > environment. Yeah, this can be simplified to: xclock. xclock needs to connect to an X server, but that X server need not be local. In the same way you don't need to have Apache and Firefox installed on the same machine, so they need not depend on each other. > There is no need to respond to my X comment above (I'll look into it), > but I am curious about the gentoo bug protocol. I didn't see anything > about when one should report a bug on bugs.gentoo.org. The simple answer is: you should report a bug when you discover one. If they mythtv package depends on unzip and it's not pulling it in, then that's a bug. More specific to your situation: any time "emerge <package>" fails and it's not a user problem then it's an ebuild problem and should be fixed.
