On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 06:53:59PM -0500, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was 
heard to say:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 11:00:26AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 11:22:36AM -0500, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > was heard to say:
> > > $ time aptitude update asdf
> > > E: The update command takes no arguments
> > > 
> > > While dist-upgrade notices extra arguments, but they don't seem to have
> > > any effect on behavior or exit status.  But upgrade asdf doesn't seem to
> > > even notice them.
> > > 
> > > See also apt #362864.
> > 
> >   darcs head should now complain loudly if a command that doesn't use
> > its arguments is given arguments.  Note, though, that dist-upgrade does
> > in fact read its extra arguments (you can toss in extra commands to be
> > included in the upgrade).
> Great!  Do you mean extra packages?

  Any command that's legal for "install".  e.g.,

aptitude dist-upgrade foo blah/testing bar- x_

  Daniel


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