Even more packages to be removed + some plans

There is one thing I hate when I’m updating packages at distribution level – API changes. Usually updating software to new API isn’t hard, but sometimes its real PITA. Especially when software developers don’t care. Because I can’t update some packages myself (binary nVidia drivers or some complicated source I never saw before) and since I can’t hold whole updates indefinitely I’m forced to take radical actions.

So… Some packages will be removed from main package tree (legacy & legacy2 nVidia drivers + fglrx drivers) while few others will have broken dependencies. Of course all of these will be fixed when (and if) updated versions will become available. Sorry for that, but I’m not going to support applications which are not being supported even by their own maintainers. If you use any of these which will remain broken (list available here) you have two options: fix’em yourself and send me patch or ask upstream for fixes.

Also some kernel drivers will get removed as they have upstream equivalents (uvc is available since 2.6.25 and unofficial atl2 driver was obsoleted by atl1e in 2.6.27).

There is also some movement in bootable CD section. I hope to update CRI this weekend so I should be able to release new version next week (or two). Hoever it may not work out. I’ve also prepared some KDE 3.5 based PLD Titanium installation which I’m going to convert into LiveCD. It still needs some work but I hope to release first alpha version somewhere in November (no, Anaconda installer won’t be included in first release). So if you have any suggestions what should be included in official PLD Titanium LiveCD let me know. For now I’ve only included stuff that I use.

Update: atl2 will be present for 2.6.27.x kernels, it was merged into pre 2.6.28 kernel not 2.6.27.