Re: [Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

2012-09-14 Thread Damian Ivanov
There actually only the unity packages needed to be compile against it (which is no problem compile only these programs against this patched gtk3 with a separate OBS project for unity :) ) 2012/9/14 Pacho Ramos : > El vie, 14-09-2012 a las 09:06 +0200, Damian Ivanov escribió: >> > Co

Re: [Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

2012-09-14 Thread Damian Ivanov
>Better reasons than "all my friends have it". Like in the last email, let's forget this argument and there are kick ass reasons see previous mails, It has a reason Mandriva searching for a new build system. And it wouldn't be a start at step 1. It is an already working alternative.

Re: [Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

2012-09-14 Thread Damian Ivanov
Here it is not like omg, I want to have my new toy, everybody has it.It is wow lots of entreprise users reporting bugs. But ok, let's ignore that point, there are other points. ;) On Sep 14, 2012 6:54 PM, "Johnny A. Solbu" wrote: > On Friday 14 September 2012 14:03, D

Re: [Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

2012-09-14 Thread Damian Ivanov
Hi Colin, Thanks for you're answer! > The "Here is my PPA where I do x, y and z" style approach to software > repositories is always one we've deliberately avoided. It's creates > significant problems for our (relatively) small teams when doing QA and > addressing bug reports. Agreed, I'm quite s

Re: [Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

2012-09-14 Thread Damian Ivanov
> Could both gtk+ versions be parallel instalable? (to keep using official > gtk+ for most applications but those requiring ubuntu patches) No, ubuntu patches patch actual files, it would not be possible to have gtk2 + gtk2-module-ubuntu

Re: [Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

2012-09-13 Thread Damian Ivanov
> I'd rather have developers that actually use the distro they build for and > test the fixes themselves too. Oh, I use it on all my three private PC's http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_comparison http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/07/19/we-start-collecting-wishes-for-new-build-system/

Re: [Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

2012-09-13 Thread Damian Ivanov
There are lots of good reasons to switch to OBS - OBS has a web interface ( lots of ppl including me do lot of the spec file editing, patching etc. using the web interface from windows e.g from work PC / mobile platforms) - In OBS it's very easy to fix a package for everyone, if you have an a

Re: [Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

2012-09-13 Thread Damian Ivanov
Hi, > all that glitters is not gold... It's very hard to have a unique > spec file, rpm macros, package names, etc are often if not always > different, but i see some good things following libyui project... I dind't say a unique spec file, the only things that differs are the macros and the Requir

Re: [Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

2012-09-13 Thread Damian Ivanov
> You mean using opensuse build system? Absolutely. > As far as i can say adding the availability to build also mageia > packages could be a good thing. I think best would even be Mageia being build by OBS itself as whole distribution. > As far as user concerned though, using different repositori

Re: [Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

2012-09-13 Thread Damian Ivanov
I am not talking yet about getting unity included in Mageia, but to have the repo that is available for openSUSE and Fedora users available for Mageia too. Add repo ==> Update ==> install unity > Well mentoring is important, users also but if there are zillions patches on > core GNOME it's another

Re: [Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

2012-09-12 Thread Damian Ivanov
) 2012/9/12 Pacho Ramos : > El mié, 12-09-2012 a las 12:33 +0200, Damian Ivanov escribió: >> Hi, >> >> >> My name isDamian Ivanov. Xiao-Long Chen and me are the maintainers of >> unity desktop environment for openSUSE and Fedora, Xiao-Long >> additionally maintains

[Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

2012-09-12 Thread Damian Ivanov
he Mageia OBS backend, when it is fixed, is there someone here interested in adjusting the spec files to Mageia? Best regards, Damian Ivanov