On Sunday 03 July 2005 17:09, R. Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:


>   That may be true for apt-get (the apt-get man page entries for upgrade
>   and dist-upgrade mention nothing about installation state), but it
>   doesn't seem to be true for aptitude [...]

It is true.

>   [...] where the man page suggests that 
>   upgrade may change an unused package state from installed to
>   not-installed:
> 
>     Installed packages will not be removed unless they are unused

Today's update (July 3) has two new packages, libjack0.100.0-{0,dev}.  These
conflict with libjack0.80.0-dev.  If I execute 'aptitude upgrade', the new
libjack packages are not installed and the existing packages are not
removed.  If I execute 'aptitude dist-upgrade', the opposite is true.

These existing packages are described by aptitude as "unused" but actually
the "dev" packages are in conflict.  Does "unused" mean the same thing as
"conflict"?  I think there's an overgeneralization of the word "unused".


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