On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 08:47 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > which is one reason why "aptitude upgrade" is deprecated in favour of > "aptitude safe-upgrade". aptitude safe-upgrade has the same behaviour in this case, it still installs sysvinit-core instead of systemd-sysv. > But apt-get has a commandline switch to behave that way, too: > "apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade" Unfortunately not available in wheezy, I expect if it existed there then it would also install sysvinit-core. > Ok, I also understand the latter reasoning. But doesn't that mean that > there are thing "apt-get dist-upgrade" can't/doesn't solve? Or is this > step only necessary if "apt-get dist-upgrade" didn't solve everything, > e.g. with 3rd-party repos or such? I've encountered situations where aptitude could find the right upgrade path but apt-get couldn't, mostly with a system running experimental, unstable and testing (decreasing pin order). -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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