On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Lars Seipel <lars.seipel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The last I heard from the Arch packaging efforts was that Unity won't be an > officially supported package until it no longer depends on non-upstream patches > to GTK+ and friends. > > The same seems to be true for OpenSuse: >> Since we're replacing some of the core components of openSUSE (ex: GTK+, >> gnome-session) the priority is important. > (pasted from your link) > > I don't think I'm going out on a limb if I say that this doesn't look like > Unity will hit Fedora repos anytime soon. You may look at > repos.fedorapeople.org, though. required patches to gtk and core gnome components that are not acceptable to upstream are basically a non-starter. It maybe possible to get some variant of Unity packaged and operational without those patches. But such a version might suffer some operational loss compare to the one offered by Ubuntu. I'm not sure its in anyone's best interest for us to offer a version we know is crippled just to say we were offering it at all. I don't think that's fair to users nor to the developers. And I'm not particularly thrilled when I see other distributors making the choice to ship crippled variants of competitor's offerings, so I wouldn't want Fedora to do it. The reality is, Unity and its Canonical developed dependency stack is not designed our constructed as a distribution neutral offering. Canonical has made some choices in how these bits of code are developed that assume tight integration with the Ubuntu distribution specifically, making it difficult for any other traditional distributor to include it as an offering without make some sort of special exception in some regard. It's not even in Debian yet in any capacity and that should speak volumes right there. If Unity was constructed as a neutral upstream project, it should be very easy for Debian to scoop it up and make small changes to the existing packaging and rebuild it..as a reversal of the more common approach on how Ubuntu merges from Debian. But it hasn't happened, and its not clear when it will happen. I would find it deeply amusing and highly ironic if Fedora or OpenSuse got officially maintained packages up and running in official repos ahead of Debian. That being said, I'll cheerfully review any new packages needed to get Unity packages into Fedora. Just ping me. -jef -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
