[Mageia-dev] Cinnamon

Tue Nov 27 11:33:05 CET 2012

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:11:03AM +0800, Joseph Wang wrote:
+> 1) IMHO, it's a lot nicer UI than Gnome 3.  It's basically a more
+> advanced, prettier Gnome 2, with
+> a KDE-ish menu.
+
+This does not matter at all. If you want to package something, then
+you're pretty much free to do so.
+
+There are only some logical rules, most basic ones:
+- be willing to maintain the packages for a long period (years)
+- be responsible for the bugs
+- upstream has to be active
+- don't cause problems for or bugs in other packages
+
+> 2) It's actually pretty easy to drop in.  There are three RPMS, and
+> they just sit on top of Gnome 3. The dependencies are all one way
+> (i.e. cinnamon depends on Gnome 3, but nothing depends on cinnamon)
+> The hard part with dealing with the install was to get the startup
+> commands right.
+
+That is not true. Cinnamon packaging problems caused GNOME to have
+(incorrect) dependencies on Cinnamon. This resulted in GNOME not
+starting. This aside from just the time it took to investigate (QA team)
+and the impact it had on one of the alpha releases (took a while to fix).
+
+As Cinnamon consists of various forks of existing GNOME packages, the
+likelihood of incorrect dependencies (or provides) is pretty high. As a
+result, this makes packaging Cinnamon more difficult than usual.
+
+If you spend loads of time on Mageia, or package loads of things that is
+greatly appreciated. But at the same time, we're all volunteers working
+together to make Mageia better. So even if you just maintain (IIRC) the
+3 packages needed for Cinnamon, that'll be still appreciated as long as
+Mageia overall improves.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+