Re: Difference between xfree86-common and x11-common
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:00:06PM -0400, J F wrote:
>
> The difference between xfree86-common and x11-common packages is?
> and why they conflict?
>
> Is one x11 stuff version 3 (old video cards) and the other version 4?
xfree86-common is from the XFree86 project, x11-common is from the X.org
project. In etch, Debian is switching to X.org IIRC due to liscense
changes (but I don't know the details). They conflict because they're
from two different implementations of X
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Christopher Nelson -- chris@cavein.org
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