Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why would you do a "dumb" upgrade <G> > > Seriously, should one always use dist-upgrade?
Dist-upgrade tries very, very hard to get as much of the latest stuff on your system, using whatever amount of "grabbing other packages" or "uninstall conflicting stuff" is necessary. Just upgrade will put newer versions of things you've got installed on, but if it finds something a little confusing, it'll just give up. So in general, yeah, you want to do dist-upgrade, but during times of great upheaval, a simple upgrade can sometimes keep you from getting into trouble. Mike -- A steeple full of swallows that could never ring the bell -- Tom Waits -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
