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

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On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 04:16 -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> ----- 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).

If it's not in Fedora, you can package it if you need it. You certainly
don't need to ask the Desktop team anything (and a bunch of us have
proven packager so we can help with updates, if GNOME does end up using
those dependencies).

> So I can try to give it another round.
> 
> R.
> 
> > Lars
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