Very many months ago I installed fink and xfree86 as separate packages. 
  This has worked reasonably until now, but I'm tired of trying to 
maintain the packages separately and would like to have everything 
managed by fink.

I assumed that the thing to do would simply be to "fink remove 
system-xfree86", then to install the base and rootless packages after 
moving the working (but older) X11 directories out of the way.

This does not work, at least in the manner I tried.  fink sees many 
dependancies on the existing xfree86 stuff and refuses to remove the 
package.  And it will not install the regular xfree86 stuff over the 
top of system-xfree86.  Ouch!

Is there a procedure to get rid of it so that the new stuff can get 
installed?

Thanks!

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