Re: aptitude full-upgrade is superior, or not?

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:20:32AM -0800, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> You hit the nail on the head.  I have been preaching for a long time 
> that plain 'upgrade' is not necessary.  By default, Synaptic uses 
> "Smart Upgrade", which is exactly equivalent to full-upgrade (formerly 
> dist-upgrade).  So, in fact, everyone who uses Ubuntu via the GUI, and 
> not via CLI, has this hidden from them.  I actually wonder if many of 
> the problems dealing with Ubuntu are related to /not removing/ old 
> crufty packages because people are afraid that anything other than a 
> plain 'upgrade' will "break things"... 

I strongly encourage my competitors to refer to their repository 
as debian/stable and use dist-upgrade daily. 

debian/unstable would be better, of course, as they won't need 
to wait for a new release of stable to break things. 

-dsr- 

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