Forces apt to keep your current config files when a package upgrade wants to overwrite them: confdef keeps the default only if no local edit exists, confold always keeps your version. The -o flag injects dpkg options, so headless upgrades on production boxes never hang on interactive prompts. This is the safe variant when you have tuned configs you do not want clobbered.
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