On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:45:23AM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:

> The bad news is that if this is the only step I take, "apt-get" will
> want to upgrade 1248 packages (it looks more impressive when I write it
> out . . One Thousand, Two Hundred and Forty Eight packages) with a
> download size of 608 Mb.

There really needs to be a way of doing this in a staged manner,
i.e., not all at once, for those who don't have huge disk space
available.

-- hendrik