Re: Unity For Fedora (As in OpenSUSE or Arch)

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----- Original Message -----
> On Wednesday 25 January 2012 19:05:37 Manuel Escudero wrote:
> > And also I've been told this desktop is available for
> > ArchLinux now as well... As for this facts I was wondering
> > how feasible is to port Unity to Fedora as well
> 
> 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.
> 
> As far as I remember Adam Williamson once looked at the feasibility
> of
> packaging Unity for Fedora. Don't know what was the result, though.
> Maybe he
> can elaborate on that.

I tried Unity 2D, the QML version - it's much more easier to package for
Fedora, I was nearly done but Unity then introduced a lot of new G*
dependencies and I didn't want to step into our desktop lands (but I
suppose the are not using these deps, so it shouldn't be a big problem).

So I can try to give it another round.

R.

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