SuSE Linux 8.1: Why Is ... Not Included?

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SuSE Linux: Version 8.1

The list included in this article refers specifically to SuSE Linux 8.1. Also consult the articles listed below.

Netscape6Netscape7 is available from Netscape.com
autorpmYaST Online Update contains the same features as autorpm.
StarOfficeStarOffice 5.2 is obsolete. OpenOffice.org is based on the same code as StarOffice6.
digikamIt was not ready for use at release time.
personal-firewallSuSE personal firewall is integrated in SuSEfirewall2.
vegastrikeThis game is too big (approximately 50MB) considering its features.

A complete list of the packages follows:

JBuilder-de		->		dropped -- development status pending
KDialm			->		old, unmaintained
Magellan		->		old, unmaintained
MainActor		->		old, unmaintained
MimerSQL		->		dropped -- development status pending
Netscape6		->		commercial; use Mozilla
Xtheater		->		replaced by mplayer
aaa_dir			->		renamed to filesystem
affenspiel		->		not interesting enough, space
aleclone		->		renamed to FreeCraft
amiwm			->		old, unmaintained
asis			->		not interesting enough, space
atomix			->		only for GNOME1; no replacement
autorpm			->		in the age of apt and YOU, no longer needed
axe			->		too many editors
bash1			->		not interesting enough, space
biff+comsat		->		not interesting enough, space
bttv			->		BTTV documentation is now in the kernel RPMs
bwatch			->		old, unmaintained
bwnfsd			->		old, unmaintained
cdsa			->		not interesting enough, space
cdsa-devel		->		not interesting enough, space
cdsa-doc		->		not interesting enough, space
chipmunk		->		not interesting enough, space
cilk			->		does not compile on non-i386 architectures
clusterit		->		old, unmaintained
cross-ppc-binutils	->		not interesting enough, space 
cross-ppc-gcc		->		not interesting enough, space
cross-ppc-gcc-core	->		not interesting enough, space
cross-ppc-glibc		->		not interesting enough, space
cross-ppc-lx_sus22	->		not interesting enough, space
cross-ppc-lx_suse	->		not interesting enough, space
cross-ppc-termcap	->		not interesting enough, space
db-extensions		->		not used by any package, space
db-extensions-devel	->		not used by any package, space
digikam			->		not usable at time of release; use gtkam
dsh			->		old, unmaintained
dvisvga			->		svgalib dropped previously; use xdvi or kdvi
ee			->		only for GNOME1; no replacement
elipkg			->		not interesting enough, broken with gcc 3.2
elvis			->		too many vi clones
etherboot-mknbi		->		renamed to mknbi
faxprint		->		does not work with CUPS, space
fbm			->		old, unmaintained; use ImageMagick
fbm2fli			->		old, unmaintained; use ImageMagick
florist			->		not maintained anymore, space
fvwm95			->		not maintained anymore, space
ganglia			->		useful only with other cluster utilities currently not included
ganglia-axon		->		useful only with other cluster utilities currently not included
ganglia-dendrite	->		useful only with other cluster utilities currently not included
gdkxft			->		not needed for GNOME2
gfcc			->		old and unmaintained, space
gjava			->		renamed to gcc-java
gmod			->		old, unmaintained, problems with qt
gnapster		->		superseded by lopster
gnat-glade		->		broken with gcc 3.2
gnotepad+		->		only for GNOME1; no replacement
gobjc			->		renamed to gcc-objc
gpc			->		broken with gcc 3.2
gpp 			-> 		renamed to gcc-c++
gppinfo 		-> 		obsolete
gppshare 		-> 		merged into libstdc++ 
gps 			-> 		old; use ksysguard
guavac  		-> 		old, unmaintained; use jikes
happy 			-> 		only needed for ghc, which is dropped
heartbeat-ldirectd 	-> 		renamed to heartbeat-ldirectord
id3ed 			-> 		broken with gcc 3.2; use easytag
ids 			-> 		not interesting enough, space
ircii 			-> 		too many irc clients; use epic4
jstools 		-> 		not interesting enough, space
junkbuster 		-> 		renamed to privoxy
k_i386 			-> 		dropped 
kdedb 			-> 		old, broken
kdestudio 		-> 		old, broken
kec 			-> 		old, broken
kemistry 		-> 		old, broken
km_alsa 		-> 		merged into kernel RPMs
km_vdtxt 		-> 		used only by videotext (videotext is superseded by alevt)
kmasqdialer 		-> 		old, broken
knc 			-> 		old, broken
ks8085 			-> 		not interesting enough
ksimus 			-> 		compiler bug
kstocks 		-> 		old, broken
ktexmaker2 		-> 		merged into kile
kuickshow 		-> 		merged into kdegraphics3-extra
kuml 			-> 		old, unmaintained
kups 			-> 		merged into kdelibs3-cups
kylix 			-> 		commercial
lam-manpages		-> 		renamed to lam-devel
lclint 			-> 		renamed to splint
ldpmanes 		-> 		renamed to man-pages-es
ldpmanfr 		-> 		renamed to man-pages-fr
libgpp 			-> 		merged into libstdc++-*
libicu17 		-> 		libicu21
libpkg 			-> 		yast2-packager 
libpkg-devel 		-> 		yast2-packager
libz 			-> 		zlib
lightspeed 		-> 		old, unmaintained 
lincvs 			-> 		space; use cervisia
magicsqr 		-> 		broken with gcc 3.2
maildrop 		-> 		space
maildrop-devel 		-> 		space
maxwell 		-> 		too many editors
mbedit 			-> 		too many vi clones
mdomo 			-> 		renamed to majordomo
mirrma 			-> 		old, broken
mkcramfs 		-> 		patched into util-linux
mlvwm 			-> 		old, unmaintained
mocka 			-> 		old, unmaintained
moneydance 		-> 		pending dropped
moonlite 		-> 		old, unmaintained
mule-ucs-xemacs 	-> 		Mule-UCS is now part of the XEmacs sumo packages 
newt 			-> 		not interesting enough
newt-devel 		-> 		not interesting enough
nh_data 		-> 		renamed to nethack_data
nn_spool 		-> 		dropped; use nn
noflushd 		-> 		bdflush is obsolete. Do not use it. It does not work with 2.5.x kernels and only rarely works with 2.4.x kernels.
nt 			-> 		renamed to d4x
oiv 			-> 		not interesting enough
oivdata 		-> 		not interesting enough
oivdemos 		-> 		not interesting enough
oivdevel 		-> 		not interesting enough
open_eis 		-> 		dropped -- development status pending
openh323gk 		-> 		renamed to gnugk
openldap-client		-> 		dropped; use openldap2
openldap-devel 		-> 		dropped; use openldap2 
openuniverse 		-> 		unmaintained, broken with gcc 3.2
outguess 		-> 		not interesting enough
panelmm 		-> 		only for GNOME1, space
perl-Cryptix 		-> 		unmaintained, perl-Net-SNMP does not need it anymore
perl-Cyrus-SIEVE-acap 	-> 		no longer available since 2.1.x
perl-Digest-MD5 	-> 		merged into perl5.8
perl-Filter-Simple 	-> 		merged into perl5.8
perl-I18N-LangTags 	-> 		merged into perl5.8
perl-Image-Info 	-> 		dropped, was only there because of ids
perl-MIME-Base64 	-> 		merged into perl5.8
perl-Storable 		-> 		merged into perl5.8
perl-Syslog 		-> 		perl-Unix-Syslog
perl-Test-Simple 	-> 		merged into perl5.8
perl-Text-Balanced 	-> 		merged into perl5.8
perl-Time-HiRes 	-> 		merged into perl5.8
perl-VACM 		-> 		depends on vacm, which is dropped
perl-libnet 		-> 		merged into perl5.8
personal-firewall 	-> 		integrated in SuSEfirewall2
pilotsdk 		-> 		old, unmaintained
pmake 			-> 		not interesting enough
prcs 			-> 		dropped, use rcs or cvs
psdktutr 		-> 		dropped, useless without SDK
pvmpov 			-> 		unmaintained and not running out-of-the-box
pvmpp 			-> 		not interesting enough
pvmpp-devel 		-> 		not interesting enough
pygdmod 		-> 		dropped; use Python Imaging Library (PIL)
qt-freebies 		-> 		renamed to tmake
qtcups 			-> 		merged into kprinter 
quicktime4linux 	-> 		renamed to libquicktime
quicktime4linux-devel 	-> 		renamed to libquicktime-devel
radioactive 		-> 		only in GNOME1; GNOME2 port only in CVS
radiusd-cistron 	-> 		replaced by freeradius
riq-convert-light 	-> 		dropped -- development status pending
rstatist 		-> 		not interesting enough
sapphire 		-> 		old, unmaintained
siag 			-> 		too many office applications
smb_auth 		-> 		merged into squid
smjpeg 			-> 		not interesting enough
smurf 			-> 		renamed to swami
so_base 		-> 		commercial; use OO.org 
so_de 			-> 		commercial; use OO.org
so_en 			-> 		commercial; use OO.org
softknot 		-> 		dropped -- development status pending
splashanim 		-> 		renamed to bootsplash
splitvit 		-> 		dropped; use screen
squaroid-gfx 		-> 		renamed to squaroid
squaroid-sfx 		-> 		renamed to squaroid
stat 			-> 		merged into fileutils
su1 			-> 		dropped; use sudo
suse-gnome-theme 	-> 		obsolete
susehelpcenter 		-> 		renamed to susehelp
terrafor 		-> 		not interesting enough
turboprint 		-> 		dropped -- development status pending
udf 			-> 		renamed to udftools
vacm 			-> 		unmaintained and VA hardware-specific
vacm-clientlib 		-> 		unmaintained and VA hardware-specific
vacm-devel		-> 		unmaintained and VA hardware-specific
vacm-flim 		-> 		unmaintained and VA hardware-specific
vacm-hoover 		-> 		unmaintained and VA hardware-specific
vacm-node 		-> 		unmaintained and VA hardware-specific
vacm-sercon 		-> 		unmaintained and VA hardware-specific
vacm-vash 		-> 		unmaintained and VA hardware-specific
vegastrike 		-> 		too big
videotext 		-> 		superseded by alevt
vmware-driver 		->		the vmware driver module is handled in the xf86 package since the module sources are distributed under the XFree86 license
vshop 			-> 		unmaintained
web500gw 		-> 		old, unmaintained
wmapps 			-> 		renamed to WindowMaker-applets
wmthemes 		-> 		renamed to WindowMaker-themes
word2x 			-> 		dropped; use wv 
wxg-init 		-> 		unmaintained
xalf 			-> 		only in GNOME1
xancur 			-> 		not interesting enough
xball 			-> 		not interesting enough
xbarcode		-> 		not interesting enough
xcdiff 			-> 		poorly maintained; use tkdiff
xclass-utils 		-> 		used only by fvwm95, which is dropped
xfglr200 		-> 		renamed to xfglrx
xfract 			-> 		dropped use xaos
xfstt 			->		no longer required in Xfree 4.2
xgas 			->		not interesting enough
xinfo 			-> 		not interesting enough
xirc 			-> 		too many irc clients
xledmpi 		-> 		unmaintained, not interesting enough
xmms-gnome 		-> 		only in GNOME1
xmovie 			-> 		dropped; use mplayer
xmrm 			->  		old, unmaintained
xmtv 			-> 		unmaintained, not interesting enough
xpenguins_applet 	-> 		only in GNOME1
xsadp 			-> 		license unclear
xscavenger 		-> 		not interesting enough
xscreensaver-gnome 	-> 		built into GNOME2 control center
xshogi 			-> 		renamed to gnushogi
xsox 			-> 		old, unmaintained
xsw 			-> 		not interesting enough
xsw-server 		-> 		not interesting enough
xtartan 		-> 		not interesting enough
xtide 			-> 		not interesting enough
xvhelp 			-> 		not interesting enough
xvi 			-> 		too many vi clones
xvtdl 			-> 		not interesting enough
xwb 			-> 		not interesting enough
ydoc 			-> 		merged into yast-devtools
z1013emu 		-> 		not interesting enough
zope-doc-pdf 		-> 		merged into zope-doc

See also:
o Why is software xy not on the CDs?
o SuSE Linux 7.3: Why Is ... Not Included?

Keywords: SOFTWARE, DISTRIBUTION, WHY NOT, MISSING, INCLUDED

Categories: Frequently asked Questions

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