On Tuesday February 21 2023 02:18:25 Dave T wrote:
>I'm thinking about sticking with KDE Plasma 5.26 (or maybe one of the
>KDE Plasma 5.25 releases) until I'm ready to move to wayland and

...

>Who is doing something similar and could offer me some advice? (Or
>should I ask on an Arch Linux forum?)


Ahhh, the eternal update dance... it gets old, doesn't it? I'm personally still 
on Kubuntu 14.04 (and so, yes, with Plasma 4), updated myself in part with PPAs 
containing backports and with locally built software managed through a 3rd 
party packaging system.

Pinning/holding a selection of packages would work but only if you're certain 
that non of the pinned packages have dependents which also get blocked from 
being updated; this can lead to a snowball effect. You'd probably be fine 
though just pinning your entire KDE DE, if the version you have works for you. 
You'd best ask about that kind of details on an Arch forum or ML.

Note that KDE has one or even 2 systems of its own to grab sources and build 
the entire DE. IIRC Arch is one of the distros that is normally built locally 
so following that approach wouldn't really be overly new for you or require 
setting up a dev. environment etc.

R.

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