• WheelchairArtist
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    2 years ago

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

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      2 years 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.