On 2010-03-31 08:51, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:32:29 -0400 "S.D.A." <marathon.durandal@gmail.com> wrote: Hello S.D.A.,update' for my SID laptop this morning. Says over 900 packages need to be updated! Now I know it's been a few days since we received updates, and I update every day prior to the downtime; Surely that can't be right, can it?Depends on all sorts of things (like what you've got installed) but yes, at first sight, that seems like a lot.
SDA must have a lot more packages installed than I (who haven't upgraded in about a week) do:
$ apt-show-versions -u | wc
249 1494 15535
(Yes, I run Sid.)
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