Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers
Doing a dselect update and dselect install to day gives me the following:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
kcontrol kicker libthunar-vfs-1-2 thunar thunar-volman xorg
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all
xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd
xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
xserver-xorg-input-wacom
xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm xserver-xorg-video-ark
xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-cyrix
xserver-xorg-video-dummy xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-glint
xserver-xorg-video-i128 xserver-xorg-video-i740
xserver-xorg-video-imstt xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-neomagic
xserver-xorg-video-nsc xserver-xorg-video-nv xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd xserver-xorg-video-rendition
xserver-xorg-video-s3
xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb
xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-tga
xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-v4l
xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vga
xserver-xorg-video-vmware xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
The following NEW packages will be installed:
acl consolekit exiv2 gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-x htdig kaboom kde-icons-oxygen
kdebase-runtime-data kdebase-runtime-data-common kdelibs5-data libass3
libck-connector0 libclucene0ldbl libdrm-intel1 libdv4
libevent-1.4-2 libexiv2-4 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libltdl7
libpam-ck-connector libphonon4 libpolkit-dbus2 libpolkit-grant2
libpolkit2 libpq5 libqt4-opengl libqt4-svg libraptor1 librasqal1
librdf0 libsoprano4 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libvisual-0.4-0
libvisual-0.4-plugins phonon phonon-backend-gstreamer policykit
raptor-utils redland-utils
The following packages will be upgraded:
bash-completion coreutils cpp-4.3 cups cups-client cups-common
dhcp3-client dhcp3-common gcc-4.3-base gnome-keyring grub gtk2-engines
gtk2-engines-murrine gtk2-engines-xfce hal iptables kdebase-data
libcups2 libcupsimage2 libcupsys2 libdes425-3 libdvdread4 libgcc1
libgcr0 libgfortran3 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglade2-0
libglu1-mesa libgnome-keyring0 libgp11-0 libgraphviz4 libgsf-1-114
libgsf-1-common libgssapi-krb5-2 libhal-storage1 libhal1
libhunspell-1.2-0 libimlib2 libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3 libkrb53 libkrb5support0
liblcms1 libncurses5 libncursesw5 libnss3-1d libpam-gnome-keyring
libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libsplashy1 libstdc++6 libvlc2
libvlccore0 libx11-6 libx11-data libxfce4util4 locales mesa-utils
mplayer ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term nfs-common
nfs-kernel-server openssl-blacklist python-mmkeys python-support
sonata streamripper tar thunar-data traceroute tzdata vlc vlc-data
vlc-nox x11-common x11-xserver-utils xbase-clients xfonts-base xutils
82 upgraded, 42 newly installed, 53 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 160MB of archives.
After this operation, 92.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
I understand that there is some kind of transition from Xorg 7.3 to 7.3,
but if I answer yes here I think I'll be left without a usable X. Do I
just wait a while?
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