On 18 April 2016 at 03:07, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Jon LaBadie <jo...@jgcomp.com> wrote: > > On F22, the manpage for dnf says the update and update-to > > commands are deprecated aliases for upgrade and upgrade-to. > > > > That being the case, shouldn't the update-info and > > check-update commands also be deprecated and have > > corresponding upgrade versions? > > That would be consistent. File a bug? > > I think the vernacular change is questionable, though. For a long time > update means minor, and upgrade means major. And it makes it more > confusing where upgrade vs system-upgrade. So system is what makes it > major and not system is what makes it minor. Uhh? > > But I'm also too lazy to go look at the change to see what the logic > is about. I guess from dnf's standpoint this isn't a meaningful > distinction. > > For now I continue to use update. > > Once upon a time obsoleting was disabled by default and update would only do non-obsoleting packages and upgrade would include obsolete in the dependency resolution. The obsolete was enabled by default rendering the difference between update and upgrade meaningless in default situations - hence the deprecation. Honestly I'm surprised both were carried forward to dnf rather than the deprecated command being dropped at the yum -> dnf boundary.
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