• stallmer@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Is there a reason these commands weren’t at some point combined into one flag?

    I can see why you’d want separate “update” and “upgrade” options, but another flag that does both without writing such a long command would be nice.

    Maybe I just don’t know enough about apt and such a flag does exist? Maybe they’re just expecting folks to create an alias?

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      1 year ago

      If you use nala (frontend for apt) when you drop a “nala upgrade” it automatically calls update first

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      1 year ago

      If you want to install something, do you wish to just update before hand, or to upgrade too ? I guess the former.

      Now you could add update to the install function, but it would mean if you updated 5 mins ago for install something, you would need to update again as you install something else.

      Better to keep them separated and call them as you wish.