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They choose not to officially support it precisely because of the types of issues that upgrading e.g. glibc or openssl can cause. That said, the vast majority
by Quekid5 5y ago
They choose not to officially support it precisely because of the types of issues that upgrading e.g. glibc or openssl can cause.
That said, the vast majority of the time only upgrading a particular application/package (and its dependencies) will work just fine. It's just that there are no (official) guarantees.
- Liskni_si 5y agoThe types of issues upgrading e.g. glibc or openssl can cause are largely predictable, aren't they? That's why there's libtool and sonames and that kind of stuff. The only missing piece is support for this in the package manager…
- nemetroid 5y agoPacman can roll back packages, and does let you stop certain packages from being upgraded. As you say, you could probably get away with doing it, if the package in question has "boring" (i.e. ABI stable) dependencies.