Hoary - X-Window System Upgrade Offered by Synaptic

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Wed May 25 02:45:04 UTC 2005


On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:25:21PM -0700, Ed Fletcher wrote:
> Third issue.  Maybe related to the second one with the Debian menu.
> 
> I upgraded from Warty to Hoary, and Synaptic is now offering to upgrade
> my X-Window System from 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6ubuntu25.2 to 6.8.2-10 which seems
> like quite an upgrade.  Especially since the download will only be 166Kb.
> 
> Is this normal?  If not, why am I even seeing this?

When upgrading to Hoary, sure it's normal.  There will be other packages
involved (about eighty); x-window-system is only a tiny little package
that ensures you have lots and lots of other packages installed that,
together, comprise a base X install.
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