apper exclude packages?

[Kevin Kofler]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> I needed to downgrade the xorg-x11* packages on an F23 Vbox based system
> so I can get the
> drivers to run in full-screen.  I would like to have apper not tell me
> that 14 packages
> are available for update.  I can exclude them so dnf doesn't touch them. 
> I could hide Software Updates from the systray so it would be less
> annoying and just use dnf...but
> would like to be visually notified of updates.  I thought creating a
> /etc/yum.conf with an exclude line would do the trick...but no.
> 
> Any ideas?

Try putting the exclude into the .repo files, those are supposed to be 
honored by all the tools.

        Kevin Kofler