Re: xserver-xorg fatal configuration

[Tore Ericsson <tore.ericsson@telia.com>]

THE problem
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00604.html
caused by my stupidness
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/03/msg00501.html

seems to be that the configurations that any Debian tool expects are 
confusingly out of order or missing in a way that cannot be foreseen (since 
each persons potential creativity as regards stupidity is hard to forecast).

Now I hope that (1) either it should be possible to enough correct some key 
file so, at least, enough malconfigured packages (in the best case only 
xserver-xorg) could be purged by regular means and then reinstalled. Then 
perhaps the pending (probably less significant) stuff that is waiting for 
installation/configuration would finish with some minor work remaining to 
adjust things by reinstallation (or, by that time, ordinary upgrading).

Or, (2) grab deeper into the system and by some means remove, or rather purge, 
a bigger batch of packages (to be later reinstalled), xserver-xorg and much 
more, in order to clean up the anomalies that is included in that section of 
the system. But are there any such means? Are there any Debian database 
manipulation tools that could be used to fake something or arrange system 
behaviour in a way that would make a descent purging possible?

Tore