Re: finding apt dependencies

On 7/7/26 15:21, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Tue, 7 Jul 2026 14:18:25 -0400 Eben King <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
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>> I have a need to find the upgradable package with the most dependencies.
 > Why do you need to do this?  And why does speed matter?

Generally, I dislike it when lots of things change at the same time, so 
rather than going through my upgradable packages periodically and 
updating the lot of them, I run a cron job that, once a day, upgrades a 
package chosen at random from the list of upgradable packages. I got to 
thinking it might be bad to update some parts of a package and not 
others, so I want to upgrade those at the top of their tree of dependencies.

It needs to be fast because I want to cause as little disturbance as 
possible. Technically it doesn't, it'll work as it is, it just scratches 
and itch to get it done with.