Looking at the reactions around the internet from the release, it seems that GNOME is very popular on Arch Linux based distros. In fact, in about three weeks most Arch Linux folks will already be on GNOME 3.12 and enjoying the fruits of six months of our labor while most others are still waiting for an official release. While they might be able to obtain through COPR or some other method they aren't official.
Unfortunately, none of them will be able to enjoy GNOME Software, due to the fact that there is no active development of a pacman backend for packagekit. Arch Linux users are missing out on a major part of the GNOME eco-system. These are two AUR packages, one has been orphaned and the last update was in 2011. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnome-packagekit-git/ The second has some update on it and it is from 2013: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/packagekit-git/ What can we do to rectify this situation? Given the large popularity of Arch Linux its undeniable that they are a big part of our customer base. sri _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
