Bob Bernstein <poo...@ruptured-duck.com> writes: > The meta package in question is modular-xorg. Mine is quite old. > > My spidey-sense tells me that in practice one does not "update" a > meta-package per se. Or perhaps not? > > What is considered Best Practices wrt this situation?
"meta packages" are special only in that they do not contain files. So from an updating point of view they aren't different it doesn't matter about the package itself if it's out of date, but the point is that you get the dependencies, and newer versions at times have a different set So as others said, pkg_rolling-replace or pkgin. I have long felt that "make update" had a too-high-for-me risk of leaving my installation messed up in a way that was hard to recover from, so my recommendation has been "No one should ever use make update" for a long time. But that has nothing to do with meta packges.
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