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@@ -51,6 +51,19 @@ the package is now used to host specific utilities such as
<a href="s6-uniquename.html"><tt>s6-uniquename</tt></a>.
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+<p>
+ Prefixing the name of this package &mdash; and the names of the binaries it
+provides &mdash; with <tt>s6-</tt> was a naming mistake. It happened in the
+early days of the
+<a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a> project, before it grew and
+became an ecosystem focused on supervision, service management and init;
+despite sharing the same author and the same philosophy, and being designed
+to work with it, <tt>s6-portable-utils</tt> is <strong>not</strong>,
+stricto sensu, part of the s6 ecosystem, and if you arrived here while trying
+to understand what <a href="//skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a> is, you are
+on the wrong page. I apologize for the confusion.
+</p>
+
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<h2> Installation </h2>