Re: finding apt dependencies

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

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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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Typically, with a LTS release, the updates rarely cause any disruptive 
changes.  On my public-facing VPS system I just run the updates every Sunday.  
The amount of updates that arrive in a weeks time is generally low.

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