Why does every distribution upgrade remove xscreensaver?

[Barry Premeaux]

ISTR at some point switching gnome-screensaver off in the user
start-up applications, but I can't remember when.  The package
descriptions for xscreensaver & gnome-screensaver don't show any
explicit conflicts between the two.


I believe it was during the upgrade from 10.04 to ll.04 that the
screensaver issue arose (might have been the next jump).  When I googled
for a solution to the problem, the solution was to remove gnome-screensaver
and install xscreensaver.  I don't know that it is still an issue.  You
just need to decide which you want to use.  Personally, I prefer
xscreensavers slide show over the alternative that is in gnome-screensaver.

Barry
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