Re: VirtualBox: stretch-backports vs third-party repository

[Ryan Tandy <ryan@nardis.ca>]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:04:59PM +0200, Yannick Ihmels wrote:
> So I'm going to install VirtualBox from stretch-backports. If I enter
>
>    apt -t stretch-backports install virtualbox
>
> the manpages package will be upgraded to the version found in
> stretch-backports and packages like linux-headers will be taken from
> stretch-backports.

For this reason I often write instead:

apt install virtualbox/stretch-backports

In some cases you would need to specify additional packages with 
/stretch-backports to ensure all dependencies can be satisfied.