https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523900
--- Comment #4 from Nate Graham <[email protected]> --- (In reply to John from comment #3) > Yes, I know what selectively holding back certain versions mean, but what > would you do when these packages regressed so much that they make the whole > system unbootable? I would immediately switch to a different distro. For real. "An update broke my ability to boot" is immediate grounds for distro-hopping for me — unless the distro has some kind of built-in recovery tool like a Btrfs snapshot or B partition I can roll back to. In that case I would report the issue to my distro and use the still-working older version. > Or what would you do when a package like the one with UEFI certificates > constantly fails to install and your are left with the same error to read > that you already did a couple of time and you have to close it manually? I would report the issue to my distro. > What's the point of having a graphical package manager when some things, > like holding back some packages for a while is not allowed, but it's > respected if you do it from the terminal commands? > This doesn't make too much sense! Indeed it does not make much sense! However, Discover is not a graphical package manager, so the question doesn't apply. > Have you at least looked at how many packages I have to find and then apply > the hold command? > Do you think that's easy to find and apply a command for all of them? > Or that it's easy to find how, for each type of package manager or are we > forgetting that Linux unfortunately has at least 3? You chose you use a distro that apparently ships broken updates somewhat frequently. It's your responsibility to deal with the headaches this is causing you, or to switch to a distro that better matches your needs or expectations. > As for informing the distro developers / maintainers, sure, but I don't > always have the time to report all the problems I find. Then you should use a distro that ships fewer broken updates. Ideally zero. > I know wonder how much time it will take until you will make Plasma similar > in attitude to Windows 10 and 11 with forced updates by removing the ability > to untick some of them, all in the name of make it more secure for the user > as maybe someone breaks the system by not installing all of them always. Probably soon. Intentionally holding back updates, as I've said, is dangerous. You need to know what you're doing. Discover is not an app intended for people who know what they're doing to perform dangerous actions. It's for people who want to click "Update all" fearlessly. If your distro doesn't let you do this, I would recommend using the distro's own package manager, as it has all the features you want. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
