On Thu, 20 Mar 2025, Benny Siegert wrote:
In Debian, you can tell dpkg (or apt?) to "hold" a package, which will cause
the package manager to skip it on operations:
A package marked to be on hold is kept on the same version,
that is, no automatic new installs, upgrades or removals will
be performed on them, unless these actions are requested
explicitly, or are permitted to be done automatically with the
--force-hold option.
IIRC (that was a long time ago) I implemented support for "preferred"
packages for this usecase https://github.com/NetBSDfr/pkgin/blob/master/preferred.conf
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