2012/7/19 Jef Spaleta <jspal...@gmail.com> > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Jussi Lehtola > <jussileht...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:49:15 +0200 > > Antonio Trande <anto.tra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2012/7/19 Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) <ngomp...@gmail.com> > >> > This morning, I woke up to the news that a group of developers have > >> > managed to successfully make Ubuntu's Unity Desktop work on Fedora > >> > 17[1]. What kind of work would be needed to get these people to be > >> > able to bring their work into the Fedora repository so that > >> > everyone can easily choose to use it without breaking stuff? > >> > > >> > [1]: > >> > http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/unity-desktop-available-for-fedora > > > > (clip) > > > >> This part worries me > >> > >> > But, and this needs to be noted, updating with this repo added > >> > *will* replace > >> > some core GNOME components with Unity-compatible versions. > > > > Lol, as if that isn't enough, looks like they ship their own version of > > GCC 4.6 as well in the repo... > > It would be better to think of this as a starting point for porting > and to work out the packaging issue instead of an enduser consumable. > Porting Unity outside of Ubuntu is not going to be easy for anyone. > There's a reason why its not in Debian yet at all. >
So should start from here<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_Guidelines> because in this case "Ubuntu Unity has NOT been ported to Fedora 17" but has been installed forcedly. ;) *Antonio Trande "Fedora Ambassador"* *"Fedora italian translation group"* *"Blogger" **mail*: mailto:sagit...@fedoraproject.org <sagit...@fedoraproject.org> *Homepage*: http://www.fedora-os.org *Sip Address* : sip:sagitter AT ekiga.net *Jabber <http://jabber.org/>* :sagitter AT jabber.org *GPG Key: 19E6DF27*
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