I'm running 16.04 but downgraded the gedit package from 3.18.3 back to version 3.10.4 because of the new ugly and badly usable design, following this great answer by @Videonauth.
His script installs the old gedit and all available and wanted plugins from an older repository. To prevent the packages from getting upgraded again automatically, he uses apt-mark hold PACKAGENAMES.
However, this results in the GUI Software Updater and the various command line tools like apt list --upgradable to display these hold packages in the list of upgradable software. Their checkboxes in the Software Updater are greyed out and when trying to run apt upgrade, they don't get processed either, but always seeing them in the list is confusing and annoying.
Can I somehow blacklist packages from getting upgraded AND from getting shown in the list of upgradable packages?
