Holding back the base-files package

[gold_finger]

To you it may be as Clear as Day but as I am obviously a bit thick because I read it different .

If they provide something they expect it to be updated .

@ Colin23erk,

I have to admit to thinking very same way during first couple of years of Linux for me.  "If they've updated it, why should I not use it?"  So, I'd alternate -- clicking "No" sometimes, clicking "Yes" other times.  Nothing bad ever happened which ever choice I picked, so I never gave it much thought.

Over time, my thought process changed to:  "Okay, they updated the package.  Now they want to know if I want to use a new, generic configuration file for it, or keep the one I have?"  When looked at that way, it makes more sense to keep the config file you have.  So, I've generally picked "No" during last couple of years -- but I still never gave it a whole lot of thought.

During last few days of posts expressing confusion over this I've tried looking up why selecting "Yes" to this would pose any problem and I can't seem to come to any satisfactory (for me) conclusion.  The only thing that seems to get changed if you go with the new, generic files (by clicking Yes) is the description line:  "Ubuntu" instead of "Linux Lite".

My first couple of years in Linux, I used Ubuntu -- so maybe that's why I never had a problem with either choice.  It just replace "Ubuntu" with another "Ubuntu".  But then I switched to Mint and I'm virtually certain that there were times when I clicked "Yes" to this, and I still had no problems.  (Have toyed with at least 10-15 other distros, similarly clicking "yes" and "no" on occations and don't recall having had any problems then either.)  I'm relatively new to LL -- only used sporadically for about 6 months, then switched to it as main distro when 2.0 was released a couple of months ago.  During that time, I'm virtually certain that I've never clicked "Yes" and always stayed with the already present config file; so I've not put myself in a position to maybe experience a problem.  Since Valtam says it might pose a problem, I'll continue clicking "No" -- but I still don't really understand how that minor change in description could cause an issue.  (I'm guessing it has to due with some customization made to grub which reads the file(s) during startup.)

So, Colin23erk, don't feel so bad.  I'm not a newbie and I'm still confused by this!  ???