Matthias, Thanks for the info, I've left this behind a long time ago and I'm not really considering jumping in again; I only found it amusing because the original work on that repository was made by me in 2010 and for some time. My comments were based on the experience I had. Good too know that things have changed; it will be interesting to see Unity as an option in any distro. NM 2012/7/20 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 11:33 -0800, Jef Spaleta wrote: >> an you point me to the relevant discussion for any critical >> functionality patches which were actually submitted to the upstream >> projects in question and were rejected. >> My existing understanding is that unity can operate without any vendor >> patches being applied outside of compiz, and the patches to compiz >> have been upstreamed. >> Everything else is enhanced functionality that is non-critical. >> Particularly the xorg patches, as I am not aware of any critical xorg >> patches that exist. Obviously the utouch stuff, regardless of its >> upstream nature, is not critical functionality. >> >> That being said, I'm pretty confident the maintainers of the impacted >> packages are not going to take on substantial non-upstream patch sets >> to Xorg and Gnome. It really goes against the upstream what is >> reasonable ethos of this distribution. I'll remind you again that >> Unity isn't packaged in Debian for a reason. I would suggest this deep >> vendor patching of shared components is part of that reason. > > I haven't looked at current unity, but the gmenu and gapplication work > that has been included in glib/gtk+ in the last cycle should let them > drop most of their menu-related patches. > > This work was done in cooperation with Canonical, and we've invested > considerable effort into narrowing the gap - or preventing it from > becoming a permantent rift. > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Nelson Marques // I've stopped trying to understand sandwiches with a third piece of bread in the middle... -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
