Re: how to clone apt repository to newest only?

["Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com>]

On Tuesday 26 December 2023 09:34:00 am Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Living offline is not really feasible anymore - there are too many security
> updates needed.
(snip)
> Linux distributions do update and you should ideally be running the latest
> most up to date security patches. 

I must be missing something here.  If one is running a system that's NOT net-connected,  why is security so important an issue?

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