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[–] [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)