The best expert opinion is fairly well summed up on the Debian wiki at
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
<https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian> . The advice given above is fairly
blunt and matter of fact because the users and developers on this list have
seen this sort of thing lots of times before.
> Regards
> Ramesh
>
With every good wish, as ever,
Andy Cater
Thanks for everyone's help. I systematically went through every package
and moved them to debian version if apt allowed me to do so. At the end
I only have acroread from dmo and everything else is from debian. I
removed mythtv also to get to this point. Since this is my desktop, I do
not need to install mythtv and will keep it as close to debian as possible.
I do not have the same freedom for three other (debian based) machines I
have (2 frontend and one backend) and it is going to be a bit of
struggle to get it right. However, fixing my desktop helped me to
understand dependencies better. So... hopefully, I will find the right
combo of packages to keep it close enough to debian.
Ramesh
