[aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

[小龙 陈]

Hi György,

I think you would be an awesome addition to the TU team. Your Unity
packages are very good (and saved me a lot of work from repackaging
everything :D).

Since you mentioned the patched Xorg server and compiz, I'd just like to
point out that the patched Xorg patches are no longer needed after
Xorg 1.12.0 is released. Unity uses utouch, which uses Xinput 2.2 that
Canonical backported to Xorg 1.11.4. The next version of Xorg will have
it built in.

I agree that my repo is pretty risky; one little error in the packaging,
and then nothing works (especially with compiz) :).

Good luck!
Xiao-long Chen

> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:13:11 +0100
> From: ballogyor at gmail.com
> To: aur-general at archlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [aur-general]	TU Application - György Balló
> 
> 
> > Is there a separate repo? Do you intend to start one otherwise? I
> > would really like to see unity accessible for Arch users.
> 
> Unity 2D is available in my [ayatana] repo[1] along with indicators. To
> provide x86_64 packages, I'll need a build server.
> 
> Unity is a more difficult task, because it depends on a forked compiz
> 0.9, and I unable get it working with the upstream xorg-server.
> Chenxiaolong[2] works also on making Unity available for Arch Linux. His
> packages are mostly based on mine, but he maintain much more patched
> packages (including xorg-server, glib, even if not all patches are
> really needed), which makes his repo more risky.
> 
> [1] http://ayatana.info/
> [2] https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch
> 
> --
> György Balló
>