Ubuntu Unity has been ported to Fedora 17

[Antonio Trande]

2012/7/19 Jef Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com>

> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Jussi Lehtola
> <jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:49:15 +0200
> > Antonio Trande <anto.trande at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 2012/7/19 Conan Kudo (ニール・ゴンパ) <ngompa13 at 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. ;)

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