upgrades

[Ken McLennan]

G'day there Leonard,

> Not sure what exactly you are saying.
    Well, you're not the first to say that & I doubt you'll be the last :)

>  If your saying that update manager updates all desktop versions for a dist-(full)upgrade then I understand(know) that. Of course any packagee manager does this.
>   
    Only used one package manager, but I'm sure you're right there.

> If you are saying that synaptic, adept doesn't do that which I think is not the case then I'm confused.
    No, not saying that.

>  I've used them both and they upgrade both kde and gnome.
>   
    That they do.
> My real question is "Does not synaptic or adept do version upgrades as well as update-manager handling all the dependencies adequately". 
    Ahhh... right. I didn't follow that bit. Unfortunately, I don't 
really know how effective either one is compared to the update-manager. 
I know that they work OK, but quantitative analysis is a bit past my 
understanding.

>  Most or many people at least recommend using synaptic for upgrading as it's supposed to handle dependencies well. Is there any package manager that does just as well as update-manager is the question?
>   
    I'd like to think so, but update-manager just pops up when necessary 
so I haven't used Synaptic for that purpose.


See ya
Ken
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