Re: aptitude forces full-upgrade

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de>
> On 01/02/2010 04:49 PM, Mumia W.. wrote:
> > I just upgraded Squeeze, but I had to use apt-get rather than aptitude 
> > because aptitude wanted to force me to install a lot of new programs (do 
> >  a full-upgrade).
> > [...]
> The difference between "safe-upgrade" and "full-upgrade" is that the
> latter may *remove* packages in order to upgrade other packages. Both
> operations might install new packages in order to satisfy the new
> dependencies of already installed packages. If you don't want that to
> happen, you can pass the switch "--no-new-installs".
>
> Most probably your problem has something to do how Recommende/Suggests
> are handled by apt-get/aptitude.

Maybe, but why didn't "apt-get upgrade" do the same thing? On Etch,
"aptitude upgrade" and "apt-get upgrade" always did the same thing. Has
something important changed about default (upgrade-only) dependency
handling?