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Originally posted by ringwraith
So you can apt-get upgrade and then install held packages and then pick up other dependencies or just apt-get dist-upgrade?
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My main beef with doing a dist-upgrade is that dist-upgrade can cause some problems. The man page spells it out pretty well:
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apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution
system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important pack-
ages at the expense of less important ones if necessary
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Meaning, dist-upgrade can actually dump some programs if there are conflicts with "more important" packages. If you use/depend on some of the more "unimportant" packages, you can screw yourself over bigtime. That's why doing 'apt-get update' vs 'apt-get dist-upgrade' is preferable to me.
