On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 22:21:53 -0400, Hendrik wrote in message
<20170722022153.GB8783@???>:

> 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.

..there is, use aptitude, "u" to update, "U" to upgrade,
":" to pick stuff to hold back until "next time."

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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best case, worst case, and just in case.