Xorg-x11 Problem is trashing my machine as well;

[Rahul Sundaram]

Mirco Scara wrote:

>I have already posted about this matter yesterday and I have followed
>the discussion on the Xorg-x11 problem;
>Someone advised me not to upgrade xorg until a fix is released.
>Well I think it's a very good idea if only, upgrading thru synaptic
>would allow me to deselect the Xorg upgrade.
>I am trying to attempt a whole smart upgrade via apt/synaptic but it
>won't allow me to deselect the xorg-x11 upgrade.
>is there a work around this?
>How can I exclude this upgrade?
>is it easier in yum to exclude these packages?
>
>
>Mirco
>
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in yum.conf  you can specify exclude=package1 package2* etc as specified 
in the man page. 
regards
Rahul