Currently developing futuristic smart-device, IoT connected, highway construction site safety system in EU.
Used to work on infrastructure, application architecture and cloud engineering.
Sometimes you don't want to update everything. I have several SWs that I intentionally mask and hold back because they are less stable in new versions. Especially with Arch that does not care about backporting fixes and rather prefers rolling forward it is crucial to be able to pause updates. For this you have ignore options with pacman.
In modern day when most of my SW runs as FlatPack, .appImage, Snap package or Docker image you don't risk breaking the system by not updating.
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Sometimes you don't want to update everything. I have several SWs that I intentionally mask and hold back because they are less stable in new versions. Especially with Arch that does not care about backporting fixes and rather prefers rolling forward it is crucial to be able to pause updates. For this you have ignore options with pacman.
In modern day when most of my SW runs as FlatPack, .appImage, Snap package or Docker image you don't risk breaking the system by not updating.