On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 06:14:15PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > To what end? No offence is intended to any maintainers, but > some of the splits lately seem a bit pointless to me. After recent > runs of 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I've been left without telnet, > ftp and rlogin; these are so small it hardly seems worth the > effort of separating them.
In addition to the tip by Wichert, I'd like to warn that apt-get dist-upgrade is designed to uninstall less important packages if that would let a more important package upgrade to a new version. In my opinion, these semantics are only worthwhile on a relatively new installation where you're trying to work out the wrinkles. apt-get upgrade semantics are considerably safer. -- Raul
