*- On 20 Feb, Mark Wagnon wrote about "xdm question"
> I successfully upgraded to slink from hamm. Yahoo! It only took about 10
> hours over 3 days to do it. apt is your friend!!!
>
> One question though. I rebooted my system and xdm started. I never use
> xdm, but I thought okay I'll try it. It wouldn't let me log in either as
> root or as a normal user.
>
> I did a ctrl-alt-F1 and found xdm in /etc/init.d/. Is it okay to remove
> xdm from here without any adverse effects? Well, I did it anyway :) but
> I was just wondering if I should seek an alternative solution.
>
> TIA
>
xdm used to be in the xbase package, no it is in its own package. It
was probably sucked in by a dependency in the now empty xbase package.
So just 'dpkg --purge xdm'. Once you have upgraded to the -10 versions
of the X packages in slink you can also 'dpkg --purge xbase' as it was
just a dummy package to help in the migration of the upgrade. Read the
'dpkg -s xbase' if you are not sure.
--
Brian
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