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Re: Exploring package interrelationships

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On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 7:33 AM Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:

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> That is undesirable for two primary reasons:
> 1. I would not reach my primary goal of "grok how packages interact".
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I think a better way to proceed, which will be quite confusing itself :-)
is to
simply explore those relationships using the tools that there are. Rather
than
exploring it less-systematically under trial by fire. If you want to
experiment live
while exploring, fire up a VM at the same time.

2. Uncertainty of what the resulting "thing" would be.
>

This shouldn't be an issue IMO. Why is that important?
It's a Debian system with certain packages installed. If you work
in a data center and manage hundreds or thousands of servers,
for example, your config management software cares. You don't.
But I see no reason to care or stress on this in any context.


> Comments/suggestions/readings/search terms.
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> TIA
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Exploring package interrelationships Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-04-14 14:40 +0200
  Re: Exploring package interrelationships Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-04-14 15:00 +0200
    Re: Exploring package interrelationships Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-04-14 15:40 +0200
      Re: Exploring package interrelationships <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-04-15 09:20 +0200
        Re: Exploring package interrelationships Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-04-15 13:10 +0200
        Re: Exploring package interrelationships Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-15 15:30 +0200
          Re: Exploring package interrelationships Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-15 16:10 +0200
  Re: Exploring package interrelationships David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-14 16:40 +0200
  Re: Exploring package interrelationships Peter Wiersig <peter@friesenpeter.de> - 2019-04-15 10:40 +0200
    Re: Exploring package interrelationships Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-04-15 16:00 +0200
      Re: Exploring package interrelationships David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-15 16:20 +0200
        Re: Exploring package interrelationships Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-04-15 17:20 +0200
          Re: Exploring package interrelationships David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-04-15 18:00 +0200
          Re: Exploring package interrelationships Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-15 18:40 +0200

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