On Lu, 20 iul 20, 13:46:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 01:41:58PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 20 July 2020 11:41:04 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Why in the name of all that is unholy did you install ONE HUNDRED > > > SEVENTY-ONE backported packages?!? > > > > > > What were you THINKING? > > Automatic install by synaptic as they became available over the years. > > That's not how backports are intended to WORK. Every one is a special > snowflake. You have to type "-t stretch-backports" (or analogous > repository selection option) on your command in order to get them. > > If synaptic is pulling in *-backports without you manually DOING something > to select the backport over the standard version, then synaptic is > broken. Broken-er. More broken-er. In synaptic's defence, it probably doesn't have a choice if -backports (and -security?) is the only available repository. See Gene's original sources.list. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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