Subj : Re: GIMP Up
To   : Mike Powell
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Mon Sep 01 2025 18:40:00

MIKE POWELL wrote:
>> 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.

Yeah, that would be ideal. But no one wants to maintain such an 
interface. So if you really need to use old versions.... well, Windows 
still runs a lot of very old software. Not as good as it used to, tho. 
There's a break point at Win8/10 where a bunch of older stuff stopped 
working.

> 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.

Alas...
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