On Thu, 25 Nov 2010, Jude DaShiell wrote: > If you install slackware, there's something to consider. slackware > recommends using the slackpkg package to do updates and upgrades. This > package is fine so long as you do understand it has no means of excluding > packages to be upgraded. This is not correct. The file /etc/slackpkg/blacklist exists for just this purpose.