On 7/7/26 15:21, Robert Heller wrote:
At Tue, 7 Jul 2026 14:18:25 -0400 Eben King <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
