Re: How to prevent x startup
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:17:22AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> [sorry for the broken thread - only saw John's message in the archives]
[fx: uses mutt's thread editing features to glue it back together]
> # apt-get remove xdm
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> x-window-system xdm
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 811kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> (Reading database ... 47940 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing x-window-system ...
> Removing xdm ...
> dpkg - warning: while removing xdm, directory `/etc/X11/xdm/pixmaps' not empty so not removed.
> dpkg - warning: while removing xdm, directory `/etc/X11/xdm' not empty so not removed.
>
> Why does that happen? All of the files in those directories have the
> same timestamp.
It's a (relatively minor) bug in dpkg: #112386.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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