Re: X busted after 2.0 -> 2.1 upgrade

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu> writes:

> In the meantime, I will update the appropriate README files with a dire
> warning to not purge xbase, but to simply remove it instead.

     When I updated a hamm partition to slink (using apt-get
dist-upgrade) the upgrade was easy and painless.  I purged xbase (and
a lot of other x stuff I don't use).  My  XF86Config was not disturbed
by the installation or purging.  I doubt if you need that "dire
warning". 

     BTW, I had tended to side (silently) with Santiago during your
warm discussions about how to treat the Great X Reorganization.
However, my experience in upgrading vindicated your position.  Of
course, I had read the Upgrade-notes. :-)

     PS: After reading Brian Mays' message commenting on this, I
checked the ownership of XF86Config on my system.  dpks -S reports
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config is owned by xserver-common in slink and
xbase in /hamm.  In both cases it is a symlink to /etc/X11/XF86Config.
dpkg -S doesn't find /etc/X11/XF86Config.

Bob
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