RE: Confused with the X packages in slink

[Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>]

On 19-Feb-99 Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
>       I have upgraded my hamm to slink, but I am a bit confused.
> 
>       First, I thought the packages have been renamed to the following:
>     xfntbase    ->    xfonts-base
>     xfnt75      ->    xfonts-75dpi
>     xfnt100     ->    xfonts-100dpi
>     xfntscl     ->    xfonts-scalable
>     xfntbig     ->    xfonts-cjk
>     xfntcyr     ->    xfonts-cyrillic
>     xfntpex     ->    xfonts-pex
>     xslib       ->    xlib6-static
>     xslibg      ->    xlib6g-static
> 
> 
>       But, after upgrading to slink, dpkg --list is still showing with
> the old names. Should I manually install the new packages and remove the
> old packages?? Will apt-get install xfonts-base automatically remove the
> package with the old name xfntbase??
> 

dpkg has no idea that the old packages are worthless.  You can remove them.  We
are working on a solution to this.

>       Is it safe for me to remove the package xbase in slink??
> 
> ii  xbase           3.3.2.3a-10    XFree86 upgrade convenience package
> 
> 

xbase is also safe.