• Rustmilian@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I see you’re unaware of the number one rule of the Linux Kernel : DO NOT BREAK USER SPACE
    The patch would be distributed the exact same way that we distribute every single other patch in Linux.

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      3 months ago

      the exact same way that we distribute every single other patch in Linux.

      Which is?

      I see you’re unaware of the number one rule of the Linux Kernel : DO NOT BREAK USER SPACE

      For sure, my linux experience is limited to playing around with raspis and the Steam Deck, and running apt-get update / upgrade and accepting everything at once. I haven’t actually even had a need to refuse updating something individually so I have no idea what the protocol is if I wouldn’t want to update some application. What I do know is that basically every single linux application has dependencies and if you don’t install, update or remove exactly what that application demands you to do, most of them refuse to install or update themselves - blocking updating because you have or don’t have something else on your system seems to be basically the norm with Linux.