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. -- WBR, wRAR
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