On 2011-10-24 22:45 +0200, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> As an unstable user, I beg to disagree. With aptitude there are few >> occasions where dist-upgrade is necessary, and it often does unwanted >> things. Unfortunately, apt-get does not have a safe-upgrade command. > > (slight digression) I wish that the apt-get and aptitude developers > could harmonize their verbs so that we could have all three behaviors > in both apt-get and aptitude: > > "[apt-get|aptitude] upgrade" would be the equivalent "apt-get upgrade" > "[apt-get|aptitude] full-upgrade" would be the equivalent of "aptitude > safe-upgrade" > "[apt-get|aptitude] dist-upgrade" would be the equivalent of "apt-get > dist-upgrade"/"aptitude full-upgrade" > > I don't see in what way "apt-get diet-upgrade" and "aptitude > full-upgrade" differ. What am I missing?
The full-upgrade command will remove manually installed packages to upgrade as many packages as possible. If the safe-upgrade command already upgrades all packages, then there is no difference; but do a full-upgrade during (say) a perl transition in unstable, and it may rip rip out large parts of your system. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwiiw1f0....@turtle.gmx.de
