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From: Matti Bickel <mabi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-wm/ion2
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:39:18
Message-Id: 20070912092746.GA8070@pluto.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-wm/ion2 by Mike Doty
1 Mike Doty <kingtaco@g.o> wrote:
2 > Matti Bickel wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > > as previously mentioned, ion2 is currently broken (bug #167468) and
5 > > going away in favour of the soon to be stable x11-wm/ion3.
6 > >
7 > > It will be p.masked and removed in 30 days unless someone speaks up and
8 > > solves the issues surrounding slotted lua among others (see the bug for
9 > > details).
10 > didn't we yank ion from the tree because of upstream license problems?
11
12 We did. That was an oversight on my part, as i still serve ion3 from my
13 dev-overlay over at overlays.gentoo.org. Bad habits telling everyone to
14 use that one instead, sorry.
15
16 The license still hasn't changed, so this situation will remain.
17 However, ion2 is definitly broken, as the bug explains.
18 --
19 Regards, Matti Bickel
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