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Re: Desktop upgrade strategy - new procedure 'C'



On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:07:55PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > - aptitude dist-upgrade

> > Note that AFAICT --with-recommends is not honored with an 'aptitude 
> > dist-upgrade' - it will still list the same packages as "recommended but 
> > will not be installed". No idea why.

> AFAIK, aptitude doesn't respect new recommends of packages already
> installed.

Correct, though it will respect recommends of newly installed packages
pulled in as dependencies.

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