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Re: Why does apt-get upgrade want to remove half of my packages?



On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 09:13:09AM -0600, Daniel Urist wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 2:08 AM, Alexander Wirt <formorer@formorer.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > * why should I install specific backports instead of all that are
> > > available?
> > They are not tested together and probably not compatible together (as seen
> > here)
> >
> 
> I understand that this is a complex issue, but this recommendation is still
> really problematic; it's very common to want to install multiple backports
> (even if not all), but this implies that it's only ever safe to install a
> single backport on a given system.

s/a single backport/a few backports/

and there is a point where it is better to s/stable/testing/



Groeten
Geert Stappers
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