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Auteur: Hendrik Boom
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Aan: dng
Oude Onderwerpen: Re: [DNG] reportbug default bts
Onderwerp: [DNG] cleaning before upgrade
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 08:08:51AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
>
>     apt-get dist-upgrade is what's necessary to change release - as the name
> means -, eg Wheezy to Jessie or Jessie to Ascii. This is why it should
> rarely be used, and only after carefully editing sources.list. It's a jump
> into the new. Dist-upgrade always worked fine for me and I consider this as
> one of the greatest achievements of Debian's package management technology.

>
>     I would recommend some clean-up before the jump. For example I would
> uninstall things like mysql server which doesn't recognize any priviledge to
> root. Also Debian tended to install a lot of packages the user doesn't want
> and even doesn't know, so better get them out before the dist-upgrade


This can be difficult. There are oodles of packages. It can be hard
to know which ones you are actually using, especially if they are
libraries, or they are invoked using an icon on a so-called desktop.

-- hendrik