On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:21:39AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Zach wrote: > I think you can mark them as "hold" as in aptitude hold texlive. > I still don't know why you want to do a dist-upgrade rather than a simple > upgrade as a matter of routine. Have you tried doing just aptitude upgrade > and see if it still wants to install texlive? I would use dist-upgrade if I > were going from Etch to Lenny for example. dist-upgrade is more agressive > than upgrade about what it chooses to upgrade. Try reading the manual for a > better description than mine.
"upgrade" is extremely conservative and will bail if it encounters even something as trivial as a new dependency that needs to be installed. "dist-upgrade" is a much better alternative if you're tracking unstable or testing; with "upgrade", many of your packages will simply refuse to upgrade. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
