RE: Does anyone else find this extremely annoying?
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote:
> > It -NEVER- installs new packages without a warning, but it might upgrade
> > existing packages if necessary and the new APT v3 has a -u option to
> > display these packages.
> No, do a apt-get update (I believe). If new packages exist and have a high
> enough priority -- BAM -- installed (of course I can say no here, but). This
> will rope in packages like emacs.
Nope, update updates package files :> 'upgrade' is specially designed to
never install new packages and 'dist-upgrade' is specially designed to
install the minimum required set of new packages.
Now apt under dselect is entirely dependent on the dselect selections and
it also tries to make them -possible- by adding extra packages.
Jason
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