Unity For Fedora (As in OpenSUSE or Arch)

[Jef Spaleta]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> Jef Spaleta wrote:
>> required patches to gtk and core gnome components that are not
>> acceptable to upstream are basically a non-starter.
>
> Well, we could do what openSUSE did and just ship this in an unofficial repo
> with patched GTK+/GNOME packages.

Is that the royal 'we'?

Surely any individual or group  can go ahead and chew on this outside
the fedora submission process. I'd never want to give anyone the idea
that would be somehow forbidden. If the patches are really needed (and
I'm not actually sure they are critical for operation versus minor
functionality enhancements) then someone could certainly roll their
own packages and never get them into Fedora proper and still have the
effort be worthwhile. In the same way spot heroically beats on
chromium packages outside the standard repository collection Fedora
provides. There is certainly nothing precedent setting in needing to
do this sort of packaging outside the main repository.  I just want to
make sure its understood that there could be some stumbling blocks or
compromises which have to be made going from 3rd party repo into the
submission process.

-jef