Someone Explain: Whats going on X.org/XFree

[RaXeT]

Mike A. Harris wrote:

>On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
>
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>>>Now I'm
>>>worried how this will affect us if FC2 comes with a X.org server instead
>>>of XFree86.
>>>      
>>>
>>If I am not mistaken FC 2 will ship with both Xorg and XFree86-4.3.0
>>(for which the new licence does not apply).
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>>
>
>XFree86 4.3.0 has been removed and replaced with X.org X11.  
>There's no useful reason to ship 2 X11 implementations in one
>product.  When you upgrade to xorg-x11, it automatically
>obsoletes and uninstalls the previous XFree86 packages (any
>version).
>
>Take care
>  
>
I tried the xorg-x11 3_11.6 rpms with FC2 T1 and that wasn't my happy 
experience.
It didn't install and I couldn't determine if the existing XFree86 
config was being used
after install. I had tried to do rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-* and that didn't 
work... gave me :

rpm -Uvh xorg-x11-*
error: Failed dependencies:
        XFree86 is needed by (installed) xine-lib-1.0.0-0.5.rc3.fr
        XFree86 is needed by (installed) aalib-1.4rc5-4.fr
        XFree86 is needed by (installed) openoffice.org-1.1.0-30
        XFree86-truetype-fonts >= 4.2.0 is needed by (installed) 
VFlib2-2.25.6-19
        XFree86-xfs is needed by (installed) chkfontpath-1.9.10-2

Then I made the mistake of doing rpm -Uvh --nodeps xorg-x11-* and that 
didn't work
so I went back to XFree86-4.3.0-59.

Oh well, it's devel, that's what you expect. I could have fried my card, 
my system, but hey
it's for the cause! :)

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