Dist Upgrade

[Derek Broughton]

Robert Holtzman wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Emil Payne wrote:
>>
>>> I've been waiting but I still see no upgrade.  Synaptic doesn't show
>>> anything and neither does update-manager -d. I've got my preferences set
>>> to show normal upgrades.
>>>
>>
>> I do know you can't use dist-upgrade on Ubuntu.  It will break a ton of
>> stuff.
> 
> I haven't heard of this before. Anyone want to corroborate? Maybe I was
> lucky but I used it recently to upgrade some packages that were held
> back.

"Can't" is a highly loaded word.  You "can't" necessarily use "dist-upgrade" 
to get all the updates that update-manager would provide.  You _can_ always 
use dist-upgrade.  It will not "break a ton of stuff".  
-- 
derek