On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 04:57:03AM -0400, Fungi4All wrote: > Michael Milliman wrote: > > I have, for various reasons, the repositories from stable (Jessie), > > stretch, and sid in my sources.list file. I have Stretch installed and > > have it running for some time.
> I don't know, I am not being sarcastic, is this really good practice? I wouldn't advise it. The stretch + jessie part is fine, as long as he realizes he is running stretch, which seems to be the case. Adding sid binaries is not wise. If he needs a package from post-stretch, he should backport the sid *source* package to his stretch system. > 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. Likewise, once you have installed a single binary package from post-stretch (e.g. sid), there is no going back.
