[Wylug-help] Strange Xorg - Ubuntu Breezy

[Dave Fisher]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:43:02PM +0100, Geoff Richards wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:08:47PM +0100, Dave Fisher wrote:
> I expect some sort of configuration thing is responsible for creating
> the symlink, so it sounds like a packaging mistake.  Or something that
> Xorg does differently, and there's an older incompatible bit of software
> lying around?

Looks like any or all of those could apply. 

One thing is for certain, right now Breezy is well and truly messed up.

A good proportion of the X utilities can't be installed, because they
depend on a package called xbase-clients which is not available.  

I've also found that various package upgrades removed some pretty
fundamental packages (e.g. dhcp, ssh), and several of them can't be
re-installed.

So the warning to anyone else whois tempted to try out Breezy, is:
"don't do it, unless you are willing and able to do a great deal of
low-level configuration by hand".

I'm inclined to give it a go, just to find out how all the bits of xorg
are supposed to work, but I'm not optimistic.  

If I find out anything useful or merely interesting I'll let people
know.

Dave