Is there any way to withhold the update of Libreoffice during every update? I do use it, but feel it is sufficient to update every two months or so as the updates are a bit large to justify the added features and bug fixes. Kindly advice.

man pacman

You can add packages to the ignore list in /etc/pacman.conf, but remember, with a rolling distro all updates you see are not always a new version. Libreoffices depends on many, many packages and libraries, when those are updated, very often a rebuild of libre is needed because of newer .so files.

If you ignore libre for 2 months or so, expect it to be broken.

Sorry for being cheeky, but wouldn't it be good if you can kind of sandbox a stable release of libreoffice and place it in kcp? It would also save you and everyone else good amount of bandwidth.

Thanks for your prompt reply.

You don't understand my first reply? Libreoffice is a package that depends on a ton, it needs constant rebuilds, because just about any update breaks it.

Any idea how hard it is too build libre? The PKGBUILD is somewhat simplified lately, went from 670 + lines to still over 250 lines, it takes a very powerful build-server ( 8 cores) about 2 hours to build, you really think many would want to try and build/maintain that from KCP?

Are you sure a rolling distro is what you want? Partial updates will never be supported.........

definition of "cheeky" : "impudent or irreverent, typically in an endearing or amusing way." My stress was on "typically in an endearing... way. So I was cheeky after all.

Probably I should uninstall libre and try the in-house calligra.

Peace.