On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, Christoph Willing wrote:
> That's the whole purpose of HooRex; it outputs a list of packages which
> depend on the package of interest. The advanced search on SBo website now
> does that too.
>
> HooRex outputs its list of dependents in build order and these days I just
> rebuild/reinstall them all (well, those that I'm interested in). I don't
> bother wondering about which dependent packages may or may not be affected
> by some update - sometimes it's obvious, sometimes not. It seems tedious
> to do all that rebuilding but it's just a matter of feeding the list to
> your favourite package builder. I prefer to invest that time once a week
> rather than having something in the system go haywire later on.
Chris,
I've used hoorex in the past but not regularly. Thanks very much for the
reminder that I should make a practice of regularly applying it.
Best regards,
Rich
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