-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:23:46AM -0400, Fungi4All wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Apt Question > UTC Time: May 23, 2017 11:54 AM > From: wool...@eeg.ccf.org > > > 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.
That will depend... on the dependencies :) Of course, if some package from the N+1 distro pulls in something really fat, like, say libc, which upgrades half of your box (yes, that's doable: my box looks a bit like that at the moment), then your way back will be a bit... painful. But if the package has no or very little dependencies, you just have to remember that apt (and most probably aptitude) have a natural aversion against downgrading packages and that you have to let them know that yes, you actually want to do such a seemingly foolish thing. As Paracelsus put it once, "Sola dosis facit venenum" (i.e. "It's the dosis, stupid" ;-) Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlkkPV4ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYo8wCfe9jWJO2SsFt6spVsUcQg25v7 hEQAnjiAs1Bqw+/OcrO5gRBAxYeE9Tcz =YED9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
