Re: Switching to X.org
Thomas Adam wrote:
Is this *really* such a good idea? They might be packaged by Debian
maintainers, but despite so many claims to the contrary, Ubuntu isn't
Debian. And so in that way, it could be that the Xorg packages depend on
other libraries of different names, of different versions, etc., that
could well cause conflict.
From Ubuntu Hoary (development release)
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$ apt-cache show xserver-xorg
Package: xserver-xorg
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 15208
Maintainer: Ubuntu X Maintainers <ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: i386
Source: xorg
Version: 6.8.2-2
Replaces: xserver-common (<< 4.0), libxfont-xtt, xserver-xfree86
Provides: xserver, xserver-xfree86
Depends: xserver-common (>= 6.8.2-2), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libgcc1
(>= 1:4.0), libxau6, libxdmcp6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1), debconf (>= 0.5) |
debconf-2.0
Recommends: discover1, mdetect, xresprobe (>= 0.4.13), laptop-detect
Suggests: libglide2 (>> 2001.01.26)
Conflicts: libxfont-xtt, xserver-xfree86
[...more...]
$ apt-cache show xorg-common
Package: xorg-common
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 1204
Maintainer: Ubuntu X Maintainers <ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: all
Source: xorg
Version: 6.8.2-2
Replaces: xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-9), xlib6g-dev (<< 4.0), xmanpages (<<
3.3.4), xstd, xserver-common (<< 4.0), xfree86-common (<< 6.8.0)
Provides: xfree86-common
Depends: debconf (>= 1.2.9), debianutils (>= 1.13)
Suggests: x-window-system-core | x-window-system
Conflicts: xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), task-x-window-system-core,
task-x-window-system, xfree86-common (<< 6.8.0)
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Any help?
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