Re: Difference between xfree86-common and x11-common

[Michael <michael.f123@gmail.com>]

Christopher Nelson wrote:
> 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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