On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:43:39AM -0700, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > You say you 'dist-upgraded' your sid box. Do you mean to say that you > upgraded from stable or testing to sid? > > If you were already running sid, 'dist-upgrade' is very very bad. It'll > automatically decide to sacrifice packages in favor of others. If you're > just bringing everything up to date, 'apt-get upgrade' is all you want. > Otherwise, it's one of the most common upgrade mistakes I see.
Mmm, but an apt-get upgrade does have its inconvenience also. What would be nice is to have a apt-get full-upgrade or whatever, which would add additional packages but not remove any existing package like dist-upgrade does. Often it is needed, after an apt-get upgrade, to hand install many package that apt-get upgrade didn't consider for installation. Friendly, Sven Luther
