You may be able to install the vala Desktop on openSUSE…
It appears that the vala Desktop is an offshoot of Gnome.
This is the Desktop project page
https://github.com/vera-desktop/vera
Skimming the Desktop dependencies and brief documentation on the
homepage,
Most of the dependencies look like they’re common and cross-platform
between distros.
I haven’t seen valac, so that may require some investigation (or may be
available)
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala
More info about the vala language, it looks like vala is an effort
within Gnome to build Gnome apps and “things.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(programming_language)
Based on what I was able to find,
- You may be able to build the Vala Desktop on any distro including
openSUSE. - I’d recommend you decide whether to build an OBS Vala project only
after you investigate just building on a generic openSUSE (TW or LEAP).
You want to add special Gnome repos to enhance your selection of
Gnome packages. Once you’ve successfully built on your own machine, I’d
recommend you recommend a Pattern, possibly write up a Wiki page (See my
post signature how to create your own Wiki pages) and only decide
whether you still wish to create a virtual machine or LiveCD (using
OBS).
And yes, it appears that if you are successful building vala Desktop on
openSUSE you’ll have all the benefits ot the openSUSE ecology under the
surface while enjoying your vala Desktop.
HTH,
TSU
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