What prevents the Awesome WM to be available in the official fedora repos?

asked 2011-11-09 11:08:08 -0600

iNecas
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updated 2014-09-28 12:36:32 -0600

mether
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Awesome WM (http://awesome.naquadah.org/) is very nice, lightweight and efficient alternative to another window managers. Unfortunately, I haven't seen it in any official Fedora repo, which makes it quite harder to install it (although it's possible).

So my question is what's the particular reason that it's not there and what change would allow the change of current state?

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answered 2011-11-09 11:19:17 -0600

mether
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updated 2011-11-18 03:36:08 -0600

Awesome uses the Cairo xcb backend which is considered experimental and buggy by upstream. Until there is a xcb backend maintainer who is willing to resolve issues, that backend won't be enabled by default in Fedora. As long as Awesome window manager relies on the experimental backend, it won't be in the default Fedora repository either.

However a Fedora repository for awesome is available for users who want to use it.