[wplug] dist-upgrade on Debian Etch, XFree86 -> x.org

Brian Sammon wplug-list at brisammon.fastmail.fm
Tue Sep 13 15:01:00 EDT 2005


> > To run the X.Org server, install the xserver-xorg package.
> > This won't remove xserver-xfree86, [...]
> 
> Sorry, this is incorrect, based on the situation while X.Org was still
> in an unofficial repository. The xserver-xfree86 package is no longer
> in the archive, so your server should get updated automatically as
> well.

So, if I do a dist-upgrade from sarge to etch, apt will remove all packages 
that I had installed that do not have etch versions available?
That's kind of alarming.




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