[NBLUG/talk] xserver* vs. xserver-xorg-*

[Robert Hayes]

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 03:28 pm, E Frank Ball wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:39:01PM -0700, Robert Hayes wrote:
> } OK, I'm going to go ahead with the dist-upgrade as it isn't returning any
> } errors, and nobody jumped up and yelled "Stop, fool!".
> }
> } The one thing I am a little concerned about is that all of the xserver*
> } packages are going to be removed, and an entirely new suite of
> xserver-xorg* } packages are going to be installed.
> }
> } I remember someone having some difficulty with that a while back.
> }
> } Any thoughts before the leap?
>
>
> This sounds like the xfree86 to xorg change for X11.
> I've been postponing this on my debian/testing machine for some time
> now.  We all have to do it sooner or later.

And this is encouraging... why? 

Am I reading between the lines unnecessarily, or is this going to hurt?