aptitude full-upgrade is superior, or not?

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 I have been using aptitude dist-upgrade (now full-upgrade) for many 
years, and have not experienced any major issues.  What you have to 
keep in mind is that the safe-upgrade (nee plain 'upgrade') will not 
remove packages, ever!  However, this can actually cause issues when 
you *DO* keep moving from revision to revision where package names 
change and/or the become obsoleted or removed.  Thus, if you always 
use full-upgrade, you should not experience any issues.  In the 
unlikely event that something large will be removed accidentally, and 
this have never happened to me, then there lies the issue.  However, I 
have never seen it happen in almost four years of doing so even while 
running Alpha releases of Ubuntu (as I am right now)... 

root@khermans-laptop:~# aptitude --version 
aptitude 0.4.9 compiled at Nov 27 2007 12:14:49 
Compiler: g++ 4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.2.2-3ubuntu4) 

NCurses version: 5.6 
libsigc++ version: 2.0.17 
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen 
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." 

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