Usually, you want to hold packages from updates if there is a compatibility
issue, like your application is only compatible with version 1.2.3, but you
know 1.2.4 will break things, so you hold it. Outside of that, you
shouldn't be stopping updates.
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Thanks,
Alexander
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 07:16 Michael via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> Look at what I just discovered: The apt-mark hold <package> command is
> used to prevent a specific package from being upgraded on Debian-based
> systems.
> I hated waiting for firefox to update! (I don't use ff) Could we start a
> list of other big packages that don't need to be updated?
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