Xfce and Fedora Extras

David Fraser davidf at sjsoft.com
Tue Mar 8 10:34:40 CET 2005


Olivier Fourdan wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 15:32 -0700, Matt Thompson wrote:
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>
>>I for one wish Kevin all the luck in the world becoming the maintainer.
>>Just the fact that he has Terminal in his example RPMs makes him a hero
>>in my book.  Here's hoping he gets a sponsor!
>>    
>>
>
>That's great news.
>
>Technically, we already provide RPMS and SRPMS for Xfce core, that are
>based on Fedora (FC2 and FC3), and I do have an AMD64 so I'm able to
>build and test RPMS for both platforms. I guess it's some kind of
>"support", although non financial support if it's what was meant....
>
>I guess that maintaining the Fedora packages would be like porting the
>patches I made and submitted for FC2 that change the default
>theme/background/mailer by default.
>
>Of course, all patches regarding spec files are welcome.
>
>Cheers,
>Olivier.
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>
It might be a nice idea to put the Xfce official RPMs into an apt/yum 
repository so that people can automatically pull upgrades / new versions 
... thats half of the point of Fedora extras anyway... unless there's 
one I'm unaware of

Regards
David



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