On 8/7/19 8:02 AM, isdtor wrote:
isdtor writes:
Can I really be the only user of Mate on Centos 7??
No, definitely not. I use MATE on C7, because Gnome is, how do I
say this politely..., um, horrible. Not a KDE fan either.
Gnome-2.x wasn't broken, didn't need to be thrown away and
replaced by something completely different.
Not broken, but full of bugs that will never get fixed.
I did a while back rebuild the EPEL rpms for 1.20. There are spec files I could
make available but I can't find the build environemnt setup now. It involves
mock, a custom local repo to receive the fresh builds as you don't want to pull
in the rpms from EPEL, and a build script that defines the order, among other
things. If I have time next week I can try and locate everything.
I have done the hard lifting and rebuilt mate 1.22 on CentOS 7. It's not
without quirks, and I haven't actually installed and tested, but I'm willing to
make the srpms available - without any commitments. This might make a good
addition to Nux :)
The person responsible for packaging the mate RPMs for EPEL offered to
hand that off to someone, which I considered (since I'm a Fedora/EPEL
packager), but was reluctant to offer without understanding how much
heavy lifting was involved. Also, I wasn't sure how much the mate on
CentOS user community wants to stick with 1.16 vs. upgrade to 1.22.
What kind of "quirks" did you run into?
-Greg
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