On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 09:56:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > I got bit the other day by unstable's xserver-xorg bug, and now I > > can't seem to recover from it. I've now got things so completely > > horked that I think it's best just to purge all of X11 from this > > box and do a clean install of X (not of Debian itself, just of > > the X Window System bits). > > > > Problem is, nothing I do will completely purge it. aptitude > > (command-line and menu) fight me. I keep telling it to purge all > > of the X11 system and it keeps saying that'll break things so > > let's update things instead. NO!!! I want to PURGE the thing!!! > > That's your problem. aptitude sucks. > Care to qualify that? IME, aptitude is the single best package management front end. I say this as someone who was a diehard dselect user in the beginning of my experience with Debian. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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