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Re: Declining updates in Mavericks

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On 5 Apr 2015 13:53:00 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> Is there any way to permanently decline updates in applications? There 
> are a number I neither want nor care about (principally iTunes) and 
> although I can delete the app (rm -rf /Applications/iTunes.app), the 
> App Store just keeps putting it back. There must be a list somewhere 
> of which apps must be updated - is there any to edit that list?

It used to be that there was a option to ignore updates but Apple has 
eliminated that.  You can turn off automatic updates, but you'll 
continue to get annoyingly prompted about crap you don't ant tuo update 
(for me it's thngs like the RAW camera updates- the only camera I own 
that can connect to a computer is my iPhone, so the RAW updates are a 
total friggin' waste of time; I ownly download then to stop getting the 
effin' prompts).

> BTW, Apple, this is *my* computer and *I* decide what applications run 
> on it. If you want to play games like that, Linux is looking more and 
> more attractive, especially given that I already run it on my other 
> machines.

(1) you're not Apple's target demographic.  Their target demographic is 
people who want a computing appliance (about 99% of the public rather 
than the 1% who has the skills to figure out how to run Linux).

(2) they can't hear you from this newsgroup.

(3) they probably don't if you go and use Linux- especially if you buy 
Apple hardware on which to run Linux.  ;-)

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Declining updates in Mavericks Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-04-05 13:53 +0000
  Re: Declining updates in Mavericks nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-05 09:57 -0400
  Re: Declining updates in Mavericks Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2015-04-05 11:25 -0500
    Re: Declining updates in Mavericks Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-04-05 18:06 +0000
      Re: Declining updates in Mavericks Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-04-07 09:10 -0700
        Re: Declining updates in Mavericks Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-04-07 21:19 +0000
          Re: Declining updates in Mavericks Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-07 22:38 +0000
          Re: Declining updates in Mavericks Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-04-07 18:29 -0700
            Re: Declining updates in Mavericks Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-04-08 07:17 +0000
              Re: Declining updates in Mavericks Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> - 2015-04-08 07:31 -0700
  Re: Declining updates in Mavericks Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-06 00:55 +0000

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