• manxu@piefed.social
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    22 hours ago

    Especially because there is no way to limit the packages installed from a PPA AFAIK. If the PPA has a “new” version of NGINX, or of libc, or of Wayland - you get it, too!!!

    • henfredemars@infosec.pub
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      20 hours ago

      Absolutely. Ideally you should have zero PPAs. There’s definitely a cost for using this feature. Most commonly it comes in the form of instability when you end up with incompatible or broken packages because the maintainer wasn’t playing an active enough role. YMMV!

    • zorro@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      You can set packages from a particular repo to a lower priority so that they are only installed when you expressly ask for them