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CachyOS drops a 500MB straggler, tightens zsh deps, and fixes Steam's font boxes
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The AUR-derived repo shed the github-copilot-app-bin package over its size, the zsh config stopped pulling vim in, and the gaming metapackage now ships the X core fonts Steam's updater needs to render non-Latin text.
github-copilot-app-bin: Drop due massive size CachyOS/cachyos-aur-derived
Peter Jung removed github-copilot-app-bin from the derived AUR set, citing the package's massive size in the commit message. Anyone whose install or CI relied on that package name from the CachyOS repo will need the upstream AUR directly.
cachyos-zsh-config: Remove unnecessary vim dependency (#1664) CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS
cachyos-zsh-config no longer depends on vim, so installing the shell config stops dragging an editor in as a transitive dependency. Systems that assumed vim was present after installing the package will need to install it explicitly.
cachyos-gaming-applications: Add xorg-fonts-misc (#1977) CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS
cachyos-gaming-applications now pulls in xorg-fonts-misc, because the Steam updater window draws with X core fonts and only gets non-Latin glyphs from the iso10646-1 bitmap fonts in that package. Under ru_RU, bg_BG, zh_CN and other non-Latin locales, every character in that window was rendering as a box without it.
docker: Add cachyos/distrobox image CachyOS/docker
A new cachyos/distrobox image lands in the docker repo, followed by adding fish and zsh to /etc/shells so distrobox containers can set either as the login shell. Previously those two shells were not registered as valid shells inside the image.
cachyos-mirrorlist: add US East (mirror.rosely.me) mirror (#2009) CachyOS/CachyOS-PKGBUILDS
The long tail: cachyos-mirrorlist gains a US East mirror at mirror.rosely.me, llvm picks up clang-libs so the compiler runtime libraries can be installed without the full toolchain, handheld reverts the new steamos-manager session switching, and the automated updates moved unciv-bin to 4.22.12, cursor-bin to 3.25.9 and fluxer to 2026.1018.183123.
