On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote: > # apt-get install fetchmail > ...The following extra packages will be installed: [1] > fetchmailconf libc6 libc6-dev locales ... > # apt-get install -u fetchmail > ...The following extra packages will be installed: [2] > fetchmailconf libc6 libc6-dev locales ... > ...The following packages will be upgraded [3] > fetchmailconf libc6 libc6-dev locales ... > > Why not always output 3 instead of 1 and 2?
3 is generally not as usefull as 1. 1 tells you what is going to happen in addition to what you asked explicitly for. -u is really only meaningful for dist-upgrade and upgrade which don't usually list upgradeded packages, only removed/installed packages. Jason
