Originally posted by Ericg
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just to clarify AUR stands as Arch Linux User Repository and is not related or supported officially by Arch Linux.
more plain, Arch don't support Unity or Mir at all and never did, there are just User Made packages for it in AUR.
quote from faq https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php..._is_the_AUR.3F
"The AUR (Arch User Repository) is a place where the Arch Linux community can upload PKGBUILDs of applications, libraries, etc., and share them with the entire community. Fellow users can then vote for their favorites to be moved into the [community] repository to be shared with Arch Linux users in binary form."
"The Arch User Repository is where all PKGBUILDs that users submit are stored, and must be built manually with makepkg. When PKGBUILDs receive enough community interest and the support of a TU, they are moved into the [community] repository (maintained by the TUs), where the binary packages can be installed with pacman."
"A TU (Trusted User) is a person who is chosen to oversee AUR and the [community] repository. They are the ones who maintain popular PKGBUILDs in [community], and overall keep the AUR running."
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Originally posted by jrch2k8 View Postso much ubuntu/canonical fanbois.. go get life... <-- fixed
iam not ubuntu user. so gtfo bitching idiot. only think you know how to do is to bitch about everything. every post about canonical is "omg canonical bad!!! bad!!!! kill canonical, ubuntu for noobs OMG OMG111111!!!!!"
bunch of dicks...
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Originally posted by NomadDemon View Postmoron....
iam not ubuntu user. so gtfo bitching idiot. only think you know how to do is to bitch about everything. every post about canonical is "omg canonical bad!!! bad!!!! kill canonical, ubuntu for noobs OMG OMG111111!!!!!"
bunch of dicks...All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostDistro-specific doesnt mean other distros CANT use it, it means other distros DONT use it. So until another big name distro steps up and says "We support this too, and we will help with maintenance" its distro-specific. Which seems like a chicken-egg problem, because other distros wont use it until its mainlined and it wont be mainlined until other distros use it, but thats kind of the point: if a project wants to make traction the distros need to step up and proactively show "We like this project! We want it to succeed! We will HELP it succeed!"
So far, the only DE that is interested in offering support for Mir is Unity. Everyone else is going for Wayland. And since no other distro is offering Unity (because it's pretty much a Canonical-only solution, it's very hard if not impossible to even get running in a non-Ubuntu distro), no distro really has any reason to offer Mir at this point, unless they'd want to run a DE on top of XMir which, again, only an idiot would want to do.
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Originally posted by Pajn View PostMir isn't distro specific. Any distro can use it.
There have been developers interested in running it on Arch for example (not as an official default but in AUR).
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostDistro-specific doesnt mean other distros CANT use it, it means other distros DONT use it. So until another big name distro steps up and says "We support this too, and we will help with maintenance" its distro-specific. Which seems like a chicken-egg problem, because other distros wont use it until its mainlined and it wont be mainlined until other distros use it, but thats kind of the point: if a project wants to make traction the distros need to step up and proactively show "We like this project! We want it to succeed! We will HELP it succeed!"
There are also Unity packages in AUR, but neither Unity or Mir are officially supported by Arch devs or TUs. No wonder, considering that you have to patch half of your userland libs to get Unity going, and Mir is shaping up to be the same sort of nightmare if these patches get rejected.
Rejecting this patches would probably make Mir distro-specific yes, that's why it's so
stupid too do so just because your mad at Canonical. Everyone would gain to atleast
be able to run Mir. Maybe Mir sometimes in the future adds a cool feature that Wayland
doesn't want because the API wouldn't be clean enough or something like that. Then
maybe some users would like to run Mir on another distro.
No one gets hurt if Mir is easily runnable on Fedora or something else.
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Originally posted by Pajn View PostWith that logic Wayland is distro specific for Rebecca Black Linux and that is just stupid.
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