Why does every distribution upgrade remove xscreensaver?

[John R. Sowden]

On 05/22/2013 02:54 PM, Barry Premeaux wrote:
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> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lproven at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 22 May 2013 21:04, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com
>     <mailto:clanlaw at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>     > I can't be certain but I seem to remember that there is an issue
>     with
>     > compatibility with gnome-screensaver, which is installed by default.
>     > Does installing xscreensaver uninstall the gnome one?  If so then
>     > perhaps it is not possibly to keep it installed over an upgrade.
>     > Something like that anyway.
>
> When I upgraded my laptop from 12.10 to 13.04, xscreensaver was listed 
> as still installed and it was still in the startup applications list.  
> Could not find it in the applications listings, so started it from the 
> command line.  It ran as it should and have not had a problem since.
> When I did the same upgrade to the desktop, Synaptic said it was 
> installed.  Went to the command line to run it as I had done with the 
> laptop, but it did not execute.  Tried a second time and was prompted 
> with 'Do you want to install this program?'  I went ahead and 
> installed it and ran it without a problem. Now it functions as it 
> should.  Didn't look to see if gnome-screensaver was re-installed 
> during the upgrade since I was back up and running again.
> Obviously, a screensaver isn't high on the list of things to take care 
> of during an upgrade, but overall it went very smooth.  Only a few 
> other minor issues to take care of. Gramps had to be reinstalled on 
> one machine, while it wasn't an issue on the other.  It was definitely 
> a lot better than some previous upgrades.
> Barry
>
>
I had the same problem with gnome-search-tool when I upgraded from 12.10 
to 13.04 (xubuntu).

John

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