Greetings all,

I just installed XDarwin's nicely packaged distribution of XFree86 
4.2.0, without having had a previous installation of X. This is seeming 
to cause me some problems with Fink because I didn't install X through 
Fink. As far as I can tell, Fink's package system doesn't recognize that 
X is installed.

Anyhow, I was using dselect to install GNOME and Enlightenment (and 
their recommended associated packages).

Once I had [S]elected the packages I wanted, I chose [I]nstall, which 
ran fine, until I encountered these errors:

You have an existing X11 installation in /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11.
This package refuses to overwrite these. Remove them, then tell Fink to
install xfree86-base again. (The package won't be recompiled.) If you 
want
to keep your X11 installation, install system-xfree86 resp. system-xtools
instead to make this known to Fink's package system.

dpkg: error processing 
/sw/var/cache/apt/archives/xfree86-base_4.1.0-8_darwin-powerpc.deb 
(--unpack):
  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1


I _DO_ want to keep my existing X11 installation, since it's XFree86 
4.2.0 and has rootless XDarwin configured. So what does dselect's script 
mean when it says "install system-xfree86 resp. system-xtools?"

Thank you for any help,
Noah


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