Subj : Re: GIMP Up
To   : KY MOFFET
From : Mike Powell
Date : Mon Sep 01 2025 10:51:16

> Having done this in the past... there came a point where I had to unhold
> it, because it also held some dependency that the rest of the system
> could not live without and had to be updated. So I had to wave goodbye
> to the former hold.

> I have concluded, from this and other painful moments, that nothing
> should be held if you can possibly avoid it.

IMHO, it would be really great if there was a way to do a "security upgrade"
that only upgrades the OS (like the kernel) and anything that interacts
with the "outside world" while leaving most of the foreground software
unchanged.

You *can* do this with debian, for a while, by staying on a previous
version and enabling backports, but that only works until the version you
are on stops being updated.

Mike

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