Re: Bug#176928: apt: say upgraded instead of installed
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> # apt-get install fetchmail
> ...The following extra packages will be installed: [1]
> fetchmailconf libc6 libc6-dev locales ...
> # apt-get install -u fetchmail
> ...The following extra packages will be installed: [2]
> fetchmailconf libc6 libc6-dev locales ...
> ...The following packages will be upgraded [3]
> fetchmailconf libc6 libc6-dev locales ...
>
> Why not always output 3 instead of 1 and 2?
3 is generally not as usefull as 1. 1 tells you what is going to happen
in addition to what you asked explicitly for.
-u is really only meaningful for dist-upgrade and upgrade which don't
usually list upgradeded packages, only removed/installed packages.
Jason
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