Goodbye Mythtv

I knew there was a reason I hadn't updated my system in a while, it wanted install rubbish I don't want.

Dependencies Resolved

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 Package                                          Arch
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Removing:
 PackageKit                                       i686
Removing for dependencies:
 PackageKit-glib                                  i686
 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin                      i686
 PackageKit-yum                                   i686
 k3b                                              i686
 k3b-common                                       noarch
 k3b-libs                                         i686
 kdebase-runtime                                  i686
 kdebase-runtime-flags                            noarch
 kdebase-runtime-libs                             i686
 kdelibs                                          i686
 kdemultimedia-libs                               i686
 kdepimlibs                                       i686
 mythtv-common                                    i686
 mythtv-frontend                                  i686
 mythtv-libs                                      i686
 phonon                                           i686
 phonon-backend-gstreamer                         i686
 qt-webkit                                        i686

Transaction Summary
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Remove       19 Package(s)

Installed size: 161 M
Is this ok [y/N]: 

All I can say is "What the Deuce?"

I'm pretty sick of fighting with this type of bullshit. Why the fuck is anything depending on that PackageKit crap?

So yes, it is ok to remove that snot - it's only a console that saves me walking into the next room to set what i'm going to record anyway. And it's only tv. wodim is easier to use than k3b for burning isos for that matter.

How poetic ... (just arrived in email):

Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:13:22 -0400
From: "Wordsmith" <wsmith@wordsmith.org>
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--vituperation

This week's theme: Negative words

vituperation (vy-too-puh-RAY-shuhn, -tyoo-, vi-) noun

   Bitter and abusive language; condemnation.

[From Latin vituperare (to blame), from vitium (fault) + parare (to make or
prepare). Earliest documented use: 1481.]

Later ...

So this episode got me searching for a blacklist option, and I found the exclude option for yum.

Yay!

    exclude=PackageKit
    exclude=pulseaudio

It seems it had something to do with the phonone-backend-gstreamer and there are alternatives which don't need such rubbish.

Never did like gstreamer ...

Chances are the mythtv guys have changed the database format again, so i might hold off on trying to install it anyway: i've had enough excitement for one day. The secret is N-tier architecture guys ...