Mate-bluetooth SRPM?

[Rick Stevens]

On 01/20/2016 12:50 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 07:49:35PM +0000, James Hogarth wrote:
>>     On 20 Jan 2016 19:21, "Fred Smith" <[1]fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
>>     wrote:
>>     >
>>     > Hi!
>>     >
>>     > I'm looking for a SRPM for mate-bluetooth. I'm told Fedora packages
>>     > it, but so far I've not been able to find it despite my mythical
>>     > google-fu :).
>>     >
>>     > Can anyone point  me to a location of it?
>>     >
>>
>>     Looks like it was retired at F20 but the reason was unclear.
>>
>>     [2]http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/mate-bluetooth.git/commit/
>>
>>     You may be able to build the last SRPM for it...
>>
>>     [3]https://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases
>>     /19/Everything/source/SRPMS/m/mate-bluetooth-1.6.0-1.fc19.src.rpm
>>
>>     You could ask the previous co-maintainers why it was retired as they
>>     may know
>>
>>     [4]https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/mate-bluetooth/
>
> thanks for the URL. I had found some of those pages already but had
> somehow not found the actual srpm.
>
> I was hoping to build it for Centos-7, for use with epel's Mate packages
> which are up to 1.12. however, the build wants mate-file-manager-sendto-devel
> which doesn't seem to exist anymore (or at least not in the epel repo).
>
> not being a great system hacker it seems I'm out of luck on this one.
>
> a gui for bluetooth seems a (modest) gaping hole, seeing as how the
> commandline tools aren't particularly great, but I guess I'll survive.
>
> thanks for your efforts.

Won't blueman work on MATE?
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