Index: channels/pluginmanager2.py
==================================================================
--- channels/pluginmanager2.py
+++ channels/pluginmanager2.py
@@ -132,14 +132,16 @@
         _ = [self.vbox.remove(c) for c in self.vbox.get_children()[3:]]
         
         # Attach available downloads after checking dependencies
         # e.g. newpl["depends"] = "streamtuner2 < 2.2.0, config >= 2.5"
         import pluginconf.depends
-        dep = pluginconf.depends.DependencyValidation()
+        dep = pluginconf.depends.Check()
+        dep.system_deps = False
         dep.api = ["python", "streamtuner2"]
+        #dep.log.debug = log.DEBUG_DEPENDS
         for newpl in meta:
-            if dep.valid(newpl, log.DEBUG_VALIDITY) and dep.depends(newpl, log.DEBUG_DEPENDS):
+            if dep.valid(newpl) and dep.depends(newpl):
                 self.add_plugin(newpl)
             else:
                 log.DEBUG("plugin fails dependencies:", newpl)
 
         # Readd some filler labels

Index: config.py
==================================================================
--- config.py
+++ config.py
@@ -413,9 +413,9 @@
 # populate global conf instance
 conf = ConfigDict()
 log.PROC("ConfigDict() initialized")
 
 # tie in pluginconf.*
-pluginconf.log_ERR = log.ERR
-pluginconf.module_base = "config"
+#pluginconf.log.error = log.ERR (don't really have to override it, just leave it uncolored)
+pluginconf.data_root = "config"
 pluginconf.plugin_base = ["channels", "plugins"]#, conf.share+"/channels", conf.dir+"/plugins"]
 

Index: dev/lsplug.py
==================================================================
--- dev/lsplug.py
+++ dev/lsplug.py
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
 
 import os, re
 from config import *
 from base64 import b64decode
 import pluginconf
-pluginconf.module_base = "config"
+pluginconf.data_root = "config"
 pluginconf.plugin_base = ["channels", "contrib"]#, conf.share+"/channels", conf.dir+"/plugins"]
 
 txt_p = """
 ### Channels