update-manager vs apt-get

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 03:48:55PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> [2006.07.24.1542 +0100]:
> > > AFAIK sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade is the
> > > same as running update-manager (without GUI)
> > 
> > No, it is not.  It uses a quite different (smarter) upgrade
> > process.
> 
> Could you please point me/us to some details? Or is it simply
> s/apt-get/aptitude/ in the above?

Like most any pre-planned Ubuntu feature, it was discussed, specified and
developed openly:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/release-upgrades

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 - mdz