[tur-users] Ion3

[Tuomo Valkonen]

On 2007-04-30, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net> wrote:
> Incorrect.  These packages existed on the AUR, the ArchLinux 
> User-community Repository.  They were not part of the any of the 
> officially distributed Arch repositories.  So no; no user of Arch would 
> possibly make the mistake of thinking that ion packages in the AUR were 
> "the standard Ion3".

Hahah. You trust users too much. And it doesn't matter whether they
are "officially distributed": they're still distributed by ArchLinux
in a very accessible form, without any noticeable disclaimers or
warnings.

> as you can see, is really basically just a community bulletin 
> board for PKGBUILDs - it's not a software repository, and not an 
> "official" part of the Arch Linux distribution.

Doesn't look like that to me. It's not a random mess of a bulletin
board, but a very polished listing of software, indistinguishable
from an officially maintained repository.

> So in short, neither the Arch Linux developers or TU's are responsible 
> for the PKGBUILDs you are referring to.  If you had a problem with that 
> PKGBUILD, you should have sent an email to the user who put it there. 
> If you failed to get a response, or the user refused, then you should 
> have emailed this TUR list

I asked the "user" in the comments to rename the packages. He refused,
and pointed me here.

> And a few nicely worded emails would have gotten the PKGBUILD in 
> question taken down just as quickly - if not more so - than flames.

The first email was very nicely worded. The result was the herd
crying about taking a toy away from them. The herd thinks that
when you give them the little finger (the code), they can rip
your whole hand (the name) apart too. Well, I won't be giving
them any more little fingers either; all the recent experience 
and degradation of free software in general, has proved them 
undeserving of that.

> There's no way I'll use or recommend software from someone with an 
> attitude like yours.

There's no way I'll recommend  FOSS to anyone with an attitude like
that of the FOSS herd, and I am increasingly less likely to use it
either.

-- 
Tuomo