|| On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:45:49 +0100
|| Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs-deb@kinkhorst.com> wrote:
tk> Package: apt
tk> Version: 0.5.27
tk> Severity: wishlist
tk> Hello,
tk> A very common operation is to first update the package lists
tk> (apt-get update) and then download and install any updated packages
tk> (apt-get upgrade). It would be nice if this could be done in one
tk> command.
tk> Running these commands separately now causes a waiting time when
tk> Reading Package Lists (especially on slower machines and/or machines
tk> with many sources). With the combined command this reading step only
tk> has to be done once, and it saves some typing on the commandline.
IMHO it is not apt work. APT is more like an example application using
libapt-pkg and so others clients (aptitude, ...) can implement it.
Another option is you build one wrapper script and do it yourself, it
is trivial.
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