> some people have different goals than i. You're correct. Though I do have a primary goal to have a stable system, I sometimes (albeit it's rare) I need to install package that's not in stable, or I need some feature from a more recent version of something which is why backports is important to me. Up to now, I have been running Testing which has served me pretty well. I've been convinced by discussion here to move to Stable + Backports. I included Experimental which probably was a mistake and I probably meant Unstable. (I can see Greg rolling his eyes...) Here's a blog post I was looking at: https://rabexc.org/posts/apt-config This is very close, if not exactly, what I want to do. I'm very aware about mixing releases. If you ever do this, you need to be very careful not to suck in a ton of dependencies. Greg is correct, you can at the click of a key unwittingly install so many dependencies that your system becomes that release.
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