tl;dr:

... so may I beg of your time and ask:

“How do I get a specific repository to override all other repositories,
for ALL software in that one repository?  (At all times, no matter what
any other repository does.)”

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Hi Sebastien,

Thank you for your reply.

[Note:  Background is CentOS/Redhat, in which you add a priority line in
the repository definition itself.]

Ah, yes?  Thought that was a given.  As far as I know, about everyone on
old LTS uses libreoffice’s direct [trusty, etc.] ppa.

Maybe I should have asked, “Why is the stock priority of Ubuntu’s
(repository?/ppa?) higher than user added ppa(s)?”  “Why did apt
knowingly break installed packages, without giving the user an option to
abort before doing so? *” (*Isn’t that itself a bug?)

I’ve done close to two hours of reading on Ubuntu’s use of pinning and
sources.list file(s).  Huge amount of conflicting information as to
which does what, or even if either can do this...  So may I beg of your
time and ask:

“How do I get a specific repository to override all other repositories,
for ALL software in that one repository?  (At all times, no matter what
any other repository does.)”

I have to assume that both Opera and Libreoffice know what they are
doing, and their specific release  [trusty, etc.] ppa’s will have have
timelier/better/more QA’ed/etc. than the Ubuntu versions of the same.

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I assume I have a standard apt file/directory setup, but I’ll list it
anyway (trimmed somewhat for relevance) in case I’m wrong:

michael@local [/etc/apt]# find .
./preferences.d
./sources.list
./apt.conf.d
./apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
./apt.conf.d/00aptitude
./apt.conf.d/99synaptic
./apt.conf.d/99update-notifier
./apt.conf.d/01autoremove
./apt.conf.d/01autoremove-kernels
./apt.conf.d/20dbus
./apt.conf.d/20archive
./apt.conf.d/10periodic
./apt.conf.d/00trustcdrom
./apt.conf.d/20changelog
./apt.conf.d/70debconf
./apt.conf.d/15update-stamp
./trusted.gpg
./sources.list.d
./sources.list.d/libreoffice-ppa-trusty.list
./sources.list.d/opera-stable.list
./trusted.gpg.d
./trusted.gpg.d/libreoffice-ppa.gpg
./trustdb.gpg

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  libreoffice-core 5.4.2 breaks  libreoffice-calc,  libreoffice-draw,
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