Re: dist-upgrade . . . to what?

From: Marc Wilson (msw_at_cox.net)
Date: 10/03/04

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    On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:34:25PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
    > The difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is this: dist-upgrade
    > automatically tries to resolve problems with dependencies when upgrading
    > packages. That is, for instance, it will remove conflicting packages.

    Uh, no, the difference between the 'upgrade' and 'dist-upgrade' targets is
    that 'upgrade' is not allowed to change the installation state of a
    package, and 'dist-upgrade' is.

    Both of them resolve "problems" with dependencies... that's kind of the
    idea behind dependency resolution. 

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