On Wed 30 May 2018 at 00:31:25 +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > On Tue, 29 May 2018 20:39:28 +0100 Brian said: > > > If a package is upgraded, surely a user would want any new packages > > to be installed if they are required to satisfy dependencies. apt's > > designed behaviour looks more sensible than apt-get's. > > Then removal of blocking packages are equally (if not more) sensible than > installing new ones. There is a well designed clear cut distinction between > apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade. "upgrade" upgrades the system
As there is between apt upgrade and apt full-upgrade. > non-intrusively, while "dist-upgrade" does that intrusively as its name > suggests. OTOH apt upgrade's behavior is in-between, semi-intrusive, and > spoils > that clear-cut distinction. Therefore I think apt-get works more sensible than > apt in this regard. I'm sorry, the "intrusive/non-intrusive" aspect doesn't seem that useful to me. After an update, apt can tell you which packages are upgradable. That aspect strikes me as being very informative. -- Brian.
