Re: Sid update would like to remove most xorg packages and drivers
Nick Lidakis wrote:
> 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?
Earlier today, I got brave and did apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
with hope of converting from kde 3.5 to 4.2. Bad timing. After an hour
package downloads/installs I realized I'd lost Xorg and when I tried to
install I learn broken/missing packages in Sid. Now I'll wait awhile,
a little wiser! I did a full backup before starting, so can recover.
Hopefully, I will be able to reinstall Xorg after it is again in Sid
and all will be OK.
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