Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 16:52:17 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Maxim M. Kazachek" <stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru> To: CARTER Anthony <a.carter@cordis.lu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4.3.0,1 +wrapper-1.0_2 Message-ID: <20030320165100.X33575@sbk-gw.sibnet.ru> In-Reply-To: <1048145591.3458.3.camel@intra241.intrasoft.lu> References: <b59ppl$2len$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <3E78740D.6070703@myrealbox.com> <1048089677.1021.2.camel@intra241.intrasoft.lu> <3E78FA77.4010900@myrealbox.com> <1048145591.3458.3.camel@intra241.intrasoft.lu>
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You can forcibly delete wrapper package, and the do pkgdb -F and delete
dependency on it... Only XFree metaport is depends on it.
Sincerely, Maxim M. Kazachek
mailto:stranger@sberbank.sibnet.ru
mailto:stranger@fpm.ami.nstu.ru
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, CARTER Anthony wrote:
>I realise what wrapper is for, but if I type pkg_delete wrappe-1.0_2 at
>the command line, I get:
>
>pkg_delete: package 'wrapper-1.0_2' is required by these other packages
>and may not be deinstalled:
>XFree86-4.3.0,1
>
>I never installed wrapper, but when I did a portupgrade to the latest
>XFree, I guess it installed wrapper as a dependency...
>
>I will forcably delete wrapper to see if that fixes the problem
>(although I will try your solution first...I don't like deleting
>dependencies)...
>
>Thanks,
>
>Anthony Carter
>
>On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 00:17, walt wrote:
>> CARTER Anthony wrote:
>> > Xfree requires wrapper but seems to break GDM for user logins. Is this
>> > normal, and can I force un-install wrapper without breaking anything?
>>
>> Excuse me, I'm a bonehead. You don't need to uninstall wrapper, just
>> change this symbolic link:
>>
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/X@ -> Xwrapper-4
>>
>> to this:
>>
>> /usr/X11R6/bin/X@ -> XFree86
>>
>> This *will* break 'startx' for ordinary users. 'Wrapper' is intended
>> to replace xdm and friends to create the .Xauthority in your home
>> directory.
>>
>> If xdm/gdm/kdm don't create the .Xauthority file then something else
>> must do it -- that something else is 'wrapper'.
>>
>> You don't need to use both gdm and wrapper.
>>
>>
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