The sed in the ebuild fails to disable the backend, but doesn't create an error. I'll attach a patch for the ebuild that does something similar to the configure script and actually disables the backend. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge mythtv-0.18.1-r1 with USE="frontendonly" 2. backend programs like "mythbackend" appear in /usr/bin 3.
Created attachment 60243 [details, diff] corrects the ebuild to disable building the backend
Thanks. Fixed in CVS.