• stallmer@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Is there a reason these commands weren’t at some point combined into one flag?

    I can see why you’d want separate “update” and “upgrade” options, but another flag that does both without writing such a long command would be nice.

    Maybe I just don’t know enough about apt and such a flag does exist? Maybe they’re just expecting folks to create an alias?

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        1 year ago

        Maybe for a server - regularly update the package list and compile a list of packages needed to be upgraded. Then send the list to an admin and let them do the update, so that it isn’t unattended.

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            1 year ago

            upgrade upgrades only installed packages, and only when it can do so without adding/removing other packages. dist-upgrade will do the same, plus upgrade packages that have dependency changes. If package A v1 depends on package B, but package A v2 depends on package C instead, using upgrade will keep your package A at v1, while dist-upgrade will install the new dependency and upgrade package A to v2.

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      1 year ago

      If you want to install something, do you wish to just update before hand, or to upgrade too ? I guess the former.

      Now you could add update to the install function, but it would mean if you updated 5 mins ago for install something, you would need to update again as you install something else.

      Better to keep them separated and call them as you wish.