do I understand this correctly?

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Author: Michael Havens
Date:  
To: PLUG
Subject: do I understand this correctly?
A specific version of a package can be selected for installation by
following the package name with an equals (=) and the version of the
package to select. This will cause that version to be located and selected
for install. Alternatively, a specific distribution can be selected by
following the package name with a slash (/) and the version of the
distribution or the Archive name (i.e. stable, testing, unstable).

source: http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get


So this is saying to me you don't need the PPA to install the latest
version but can instead do:
<package>=<version>

If that is so we don't need to add PPAs to our systems. IN other words PPAs
are just a way to make it so that we are always running the latest version
of the package regardless of if it works whereas we choose what we want to
run with:
<package>=<version>
That is very Linuxy of them!
:-)~MIKE~(-:
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