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Xfce 4.12 mega update coming to EL-7

This post is repeated from the email I sent out to epel-devel and xfce (@fedora) mailing lists [0]. After a trial run involving a COPR repo [1], I had written earlier indicating that I started doing real builds of Xfce 4.12 packages for EL-7 [2]. This is now complete and I have now submitted a update - a mega update containing 53 packages total. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-262a3f39e1 Three points about the update libxfce4ui obsoletes libxfcegui4  (plugins using libxfcegui4 were never built for EL-7)  xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin obsoletes xfce4-mixer and xfce4-volumed   (xfce4-volumed is not even in the repos)  xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin uses pavucontrol as sound mixer which is unavailable in EL-7 at the moment.  I have tested both upgrading a user configured Xfce 4.10 install and by creating a new user. I did not notice any issues so far. Please enable epel-testing repo on a test machine, test these packages ...