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Turns out I have been updating wrong all this time! 🤦🏼
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Yeah, apt is an unwieldy piece of shit.
is this specific to apt? dnf or pacman dont suffer from this?
I don't know about dnf, but pacman doesn't do this by default. The only way to hold back packages is by writing it in the configuration.
I've not come across this with my non Debian based systems. Only use Debian for servers because it's so stable, Arch and Fedora everywhere else!
I don't know for certain but this seems pretty apt specific.
I'd say Python is instead.
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I'm sorry, wrong thread.