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That's just a no-true-scotsman fallacy.

And pinning versions just means you lose automatic updates, which is surely the point of using a package manager in the first place. Otherwise you might as well just download the package and include it verbatim.

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No, it's not an NTS fallacy. And the package manager is mostly useful for tracking updates and simplify the process; having it automatically update is completely optional, and personally, I never do.

Exactly. A notification that new updates are available would be nice, but I don't think automatic updates should be the default, even if "semantic versioning" says the update should be backwards compatible.

No, it's not an NTS fallacy.

No True Scotsman is so often mis-attributed, that the mis-attribution needs to be its own fallacy.

Exactly. That's the No True No True Scotsman Fallacy Fallacy.

Compare also with Fallacy Fallacy - just because the argument is fallacious, doesn't mean the overall point is wrong.

There's this "Tone Argument" Fallacy Fallacy. You can't win an argument by complaining that the other's tone is unpleasant. So that's a valid fallacy, but it only applies to a particular argument in a particular circumstance. Certain people on the Internet then make the illogical jump to the conclusion that they are therefore justified to use whatever tone they care to in any argument. (And lo and behold, they always "win" arguments.)

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