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From: Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-wm/ion2
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:07:08
Message-Id: 46E738E2.3090301@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-wm/ion2 by Mike Doty
1 Mike Doty 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 That's what I'd thought, too:
13
14 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-559010.html
15
16 Did something change? Has upstream stopped being stupid? Is he an actual
17 human being now? Or is someone forking the code (but retaining the ion3
18 name)?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: x11-wm/ion2 Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>