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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    makes sense, other package managers do the same. mixed it up with upgrade dist-upgrade which i still don't really get

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    great explanation, thank you :)

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Can you also please elaborate on what full-upgrade does?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    full-upgrade is dist-upgrade, it got renamed because of the possible ambiguity (one could think that it upgrade your distribution, like from debian 11 to 12)