[NBLUG/talk] xserver* vs. xserver-xorg-*

E Frank Ball frankb at frankb.us
Wed Aug 9 15:28:12 PDT 2006


On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:39:01PM -0700, Robert Hayes wrote:
} OK, I'm going to go ahead with the dist-upgrade as it isn't returning any 
} errors, and nobody jumped up and yelled "Stop, fool!".
} 
} The one thing I am a little concerned about is that all of the xserver* 
} packages are going to be removed, and an entirely new suite of xserver-xorg* 
} packages are going to be installed.
} 
} I remember someone having some difficulty with that a while back.
} 
} Any thoughts before the leap?


This sounds like the xfree86 to xorg change for X11.
I've been postponing this on my debian/testing machine for some time
now.  We all have to do it sooner or later.


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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us



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