Re: finding apt dependencies

On Tue, 7 Jul 2026 16:05:22 -0400
Eben King <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

I agree, upgrading some packages but not other related packages is a
bad idea.

May I suggest you look at the unattended-upgrades package? It will do a
lot of what you want once a day.