[tur-users] Ion3

[Tuomo Valkonen]

On 2007-04-30, Paul Mattal <paul at mattal.com> wrote:
> Some clarification is in order. Certainly nobody looking at a PKGBUILD
> file would mistake it for the Ion3 source code or binaries.
>
> Can you please explain what thing we have created and disseminated that
> you believe will be confused with your Ion3 software product?

There is (or were) two packages: ion3-darcs, and ion3-darcs-noxft.
When a user looks at a package listing, he will think of ion3-darcs
as the standard Ion3 (from the Darcs repository), although it isn't,
as it has unapproved patches. And to make the *fraud* even worse, 
since the more standard version (that still contains a few extra 
modules, by me, however) without the patch has extra qualifiers, 
it is made to like it was the non-standard version.

Users don't read the package descriptions, if they know that they
want to install 'ion3'; they'll just pick a matching package from
the listing. From AUR they wouldn't then get 'ion3', but something 
else, that I will have absolutely _nothing_ to do with. Not until
Xft, fontconfig and distributions have been fixed as I described
in another post.

-- 
Tuomo