On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 07:20:29AM +0000, Richard Harran wrote:
> After reading this thread, I've removed xbase and (unwanted) xdm (I'll
> own up, I didn't rtfm, and it caused me a problem upgrading
> hamm->slink).  However, I dpkg warnings:
>       while removeing xdm, directory /var/state/xdm not empty so no
>               removed,
> and the same for /etc/X11/xdm.  Is it ok for me to manually remove these
> directories and their contents, or will I break something?

Won't hurt a thing.  Toast it.  The message you saw is arguably a
misfeature in dpkg.

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