In the middle of an emerge, I cannot help thinking that I should warn whoever finds this blog (and remind myself) that you really should plan your emerge sessions in advance.
I'm following the instructions in http://home.comcast.net/~alf_park/mythtv.html
and http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Setup_MythTV#Remote_config_hauppauge_gray
Pleas pay attention to the fact that the innocent line

emerge evilwm kdebase mythtv mythvideo mythdvd mythbrowser mythgallery mythmusic mythnews mythweather

does take a while (like most QT-related builds do..). Doing it during night is much less irritating. Still.. it means that the rest of the family can acctually use the TV.