Problems with Updates

[Kennneth P. Turvey]

In the last couple of months, automatic updates from Ubuntu have broken 
sound and XV extensions for X11 on my system.  I think that in the future 
once I have my system working correctly, I'm just going to neglect the 
updates, all of them, including security updates.  

What is the biggest risk associated with this on a laptop computer?  I 
just don't think security updates are going to be that big a problem for 
me.  

Is there a way to mitigate this problem without my system breaking on a 
regular basis? 

Why aren't these updates more solid than this?  There is no reason that 
whole subsystems should be trashed by an automatic update.  Wait until 
they are stable!

-- 
Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>

  Idiotic but humorous George W. Bush quote elided due to the 
  author's inability to select one from the vast number of them 
  available.