On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 05:32:09PM +0100, Gregor Best wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:21:23PM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 16:09 +0100, Julien Danjou wrote: 
> > > On Mon, Mar 21 2011, Uli Schlachter wrote:
> > > 
> > > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20960
> > > > (I just noticed that I got one of the bug numbers in the list of dupes 
> > > > wrong,
> > > > whoops)
> > > 
> > > Closing that bug by quoting RedHat bug report.
> > > 
> > > Priceless.
> > > 
> > Arch's general policy is not to enable/support experimental code (except
> > for exceptional cases like mplayer/ffmpeg). That's why on the one hand
> > some software is versions ahead of most other distros, but software
> > which spends a lot of time in Beta/RC (firefox4, gnome) actually tends
> > to lag behind some other distros.
> > 
> > I use awesome on Arch, from the AUR. We're pretty DIY in any case (not
> > compared to the gentoo crowd though) so its not really a big deal.
> > [...]
> 
> FWIW, here in Gentoo land, it's just a matter of running
> 
>     emerge awesome
> 
> :P. Cairo iirc builds with USE=xcb by default and if it doesn't, simply
> turning it on does the trick :)
> 
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I found the cairo ebuild inspiring for my cairo-xcb package for mageia,

awesome is now available in Mageia since this weekend after 2 years of
wait !

If someone would like to look at my package, maybe someone could port it
to opensuse:
http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/cairo-xcb/current/SPECS/cairo-xcb.spec?revision=74649&view=markup

Just some more explanations:
In mageia, as well as in Mandriva, we use urpmi as a package manager,
and to be able to import cairo-xcb, I had to make sure cairo would be
prefered over cairo-xcb. So I had to add it to
/etc/urpmi/prefer.vendor.list as I do not want to disturb other people,
and because I know I will not be able to get cairo compile with
--enable-xcb.

I don’t know if you can ensure this with zypper/yast, YMMV.

I hope this can help you, and that opensuse community will accept a
package like this one.

Regards,
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Rémy CLOUARD (shikamaru)
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