[sf-lug] NEED INFO ABOUT BOOT SECTOR, SPACE LIMITS

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Tom Turner (seameadowlake at gmail.com):

> Thanks Rick.
> 
> On the issue of Texstar's update recommendations,

What he says is 'DO NOT USE apt-get update and apt-get upgrade from the
command line. This has never been recommended.'  

But he didn't say why.

And, moreover, as mentioned, Synaptic merely runs apt-get in order to
actually, y'know, do anything.

I cannot be bothered to figure out the fine details of what PCLinuxOS
does (and please note that the discussion upthread was _not_ about
PCLinuxOS at all!), but the likeliest action it takes is precisely what 
Texstar recommends to users of apt-get, which is 'apt-get update and
apt-get dist-upgrade', which would be a normal usage model.

So, after a long walk, it appears that Texstar for unexplained reasons
has no problem with what the apt-get utility does when used in that ordinary
fashion, but for unstated reasons would prefer PCLinuxOS users -- which,
again, does not include the upthread querent, who uses Ubuntu -- to 
do (very likely) exactly the same thing with exactly the same tools from
behind a graphical front-end.  Why?  Maybe he just doesn't want
PCLinuxOS users loose with a general-purpose tool and wants them more
precisely guided by a front-end that corrals the admin a bit better and
does only specific things.  Maybe something else.  You could ask him.
Or not.

My recommendations were based on very long years of using the tools at
home and at work.  Yours, albeit of course well intentioned, was based
on your loosely paraphrasing a rather cryptic, unexplained view
expressed by the maintainer of a distribution the querent isn't even
using.

Still, I thank you.