• manxu@piefed.social
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    3 months ago

    Especially because there is no way to limit the packages installed from a PPA AFAIK. If the PPA has a “new” version of NGINX, or of libc, or of Wayland - you get it, too!!!

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      3 months ago

      You can set packages from a particular repo to a lower priority so that they are only installed when you expressly ask for them

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          2 months ago

          https://wiki.debian.org/AptConfiguration#Using_pinning

          The company I work for has a apt repo that both has some tools I like to install, but also maintains super new versions of certain libraries and kernels with configs that would break my laptop.

          So I have the priority set low enough that if a package exists in any other repo it it preferred over my companies version.

          Also sorry for the slow reply I forgot to check my messages 😄