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All the Linux package managers I've used (admittedly, not that many) allow you to choose which updates to install. It's only dependencies that should be upgrade

by Vinnl 7y ago

All the Linux package managers I've used (admittedly, not that many) allow you to choose which updates to install. It's only dependencies that should be upgraded together, I suppose.

mehrdadn 7y ago
But dependencies is exactly what I mean though. You can randomly uninstall an update to a common dependency on Windows. While keeping a later update that patches the same libraries installed. (!) I don't really get how they handle it (probably SxS magic), but somehow they do, whereas on Linux you can't do this.
- shakna 7y ago
  Distributions based around static-linking rather than dynamic would allow doing this though, correct? Or NixOS and Guix that allow you incredibly fine-grained control through configuration? (Pinning multiple versions down to particular hashes.)
- Vinnl 7y ago
  Ah, right, that makes sense.