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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I've actually dropped Linux (again), because I found out that it's annoying (and often impossible) to get it to NOT upgrade stuff. It's all connected. If you want to upgrade X, you must upgrade library A, which forces you to also upgrade Y (because it uses A), but Y also uses B, which must therefore be upgraded, causing Z to break if you don't upgrade THAT as well.... and so on. Yes, the package manager does it all, but it feels like an all-or-nothing situation.
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Can't you just reinstall X from source, using a source-compiled A outside your path that X will use? Even though it's not exactly a bad thing to update Y B and Z.
Wait, now we're on Windows again...
