Re: Aptitude and apt-get curiosity.....

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 07 April 2011 16:38:42 David Jardine wrote:
> Nobody's challenged this yet, so perhaps I'm mistaken in thinking that
> aptitude's safe-upgrade and full-upgrade are equivalent to apt-get's
> upgrade and dist-upgrade respectively.  But I still think so. :)

And they say that they are much the same thing nowadays and can be mixed.....  
I am of little faith and probably not much more brain (cf. A.A. Milne - 
sorry!) but I shall continue to stick to aptitude except where very clearly 
told not to. (As in the release notes for Squeeze.)  I'm less likely to burn 
the ship down!

Lisi