Re: Apt Question

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
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Subject	Re: Apt Question
Date	2017-05-23 15:50 +0200
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On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:23:46AM -0400, Fungi4All wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Apt Question
> UTC Time: May 23, 2017 11:54 AM
> From: wooledg@eeg.ccf.org
> 
> > If he
> > is already running a sid linux kernel and some other core packages by
> > switching to jessie he will be stuck with those packages almost indefinitely,
> 
> He's not running jessie, nor could he "switch to jessie" if he wanted
> to. Once you've installed a single binary package from post-jessie,
> there is no going back.

That will depend... on the dependencies :)

Of course, if some package from the N+1 distro pulls in something
really fat, like, say libc, which upgrades half of your box (yes,
that's doable: my box looks a bit like that at the moment), then
your way back will be a bit... painful. But if the package has no
or very little dependencies, you just have to remember that apt
(and most probably aptitude) have a natural aversion against
downgrading packages and that you have to let them know that yes,
you actually want to do such a seemingly foolish thing.

As Paracelsus put it once, "Sola dosis facit venenum" (i.e. "It's
the dosis, stupid" ;-)

Cheers
- -- tomás
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Apt Question Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-22 23:10 +0200
  Re: Apt Question songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-05-23 01:10 +0200
    Re: Apt Question Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-05-23 11:00 +0200
      Re: Apt Question Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-23 14:00 +0200
        Re: Apt Question Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-05-23 15:30 +0200
          Re: Apt Question <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-23 15:50 +0200
            Re: Apt Question Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-23 16:30 +0200
      Re: Apt Question Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2017-05-23 16:30 +0200

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