Andrey Rahmatullin - 15.10.21, 12:36:10 CEST: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 12:31:55PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote: > > > IME it's *rarely* needed. > > > Normally aptitude safe-upgrade installs and removes packages as > > > needed.> > > I beg to disagree. Here you speak about *aptitude* which is a tool > > that is not the plain apt tool itself. You could also say things > > for dselect, synaptic, discover... > > > > With apt-get, you have to use dist-upgrade quite often because as > > other have pointed out, you cannot add or remove packages without > > dist-upgrade. > > > > Clearly to install libkdecorations2-5v5, you will need apt-get > > dist-upgrade. And the libkdecorations2-5v5 that was wrongly put in > > experimental does break the unstable version... > > apt upgrade, as opposed to apt-get upgrade, can install new packages.
Interesting information. I was not aware of that. Thanks, -- Martin
