Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages
On Monday 07 February 2011, Javier Vasquez wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver
> > packages. Wait a bit?
> >
> > Hugo
>
> It's a dependency thing, not sure if it'll go away later, or if it's
> due to a change in xorg package... xserver-xorg-core now is claimed
> to break xserver-xorg-input-7 and xserver-xorg-video-6. xserver-xorg
> depends upon xserver-xorg-core, so it can't be installed unless the
> former does. Most input and video drivers provide those virtual
> packages, so most drivers are broken by xserver-xorg-core at this
> moment. I'm not sure if this is due to new versions of the drivers
> are waiting to be included in the repos, or because now all of them
> now come with just one bigger/bloated package.
perhaps if it is this big it might be worth the xorg team telling us what
to expect, or providing an transition package.
David
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