Eric Dickner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you tried it yourself? I had a terrible > experience with it and would not recommend it; many > packages got downloaded but did not automatically > install due to the maze of dependencies. Efforts to > "force" them to install broke the whole system and I > had to go back to my disks (Woody) and start from > scratch.
I've done apt-get dist-upgrade without problems, but it really depends on *when* you do it. If you go from one stable version to another stable version (for instance from Potato to Woody), you shouldn't see any problems (at least I can't remember having any). If you dist-upgrade from stable to testing during a stable testing period (no big changes in testing, like GNOME or KDE has just moved to testing), then you shouldn't see any problems. The problems with doing dist-upgrade from stable to testing happen when you do it right in the middle of a KDE, Gnome or one of those big packages, upgrade. Then everything breaks.... -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
