Richard Brown composed on 2023-06-14 18:58 (UTC+0200):
Bernhard Voelker wrote:
Is there _any_ use of 'zypper up' on TW? If not, then zypper could maybe learn to automagically switch to 'dup' internally, or otherwise to issue an error diagnostic for 'up' on TW.
We planned on doing that, but some (very wrong
Not always wrong. An upgrade is simply incomplete when up has been run without a dup follow-up. For various reasons, a complete upgrade may be undesirable at least for a limited time. , but very loud) people
complained on this very list
and so you see the current behaviour, where, if you use up, you get a nice big purple warning:
"Consider to cancel:" "Product 'openSUSE Tumbleweed' requires to be updated by calling 'zypper dup'!"
That also pops up by trying to upgrade _A_ package, or a small group of packages, (e.g. *zypp* & its deps). Forcing fully upgrading everything every time _A_ package is upgraded would be rude, particularly toward those bandwidth limited. It's quite reasonable to up before, dup after. I've been doing it the whole life of TW, on more than 40 installations, virtually always. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata