I’m thinking of choosing Debian instead. I’m a student, low on budget, and wanna play with linux and laptops, and I think Arch or Cachy OS need updates or distro upgrades(?) weekly or something?

Solved: up to date Arch can last for 2 decades on my cheap laptop, and use Flatpak for older versions of software.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
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    7 hours ago

    I’m not sure what you mean. There’s a specific section in /etc/pacman.conf for ignoring specific or group/meta packages. You absolutely can ignore specific packages and run a typical pacman -Syu to update everything else just fine.

    ETA: and you can upgrade a single package with pacman -Sy <package name>

    • jorigicoku@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      You can if you know what you’re doing, but you shouldn’t. In the context of this question holding back an Arch package is not a feature of Arch OP should rely on in every day use. In Debian this is supported (up to a point).

      • Telorand@reddthat.com
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        3 hours ago

        I would agree with that wisdom in general. I don’t think any package manager would prefer a user piecemeal updates like that.