On Sun, Apr 14, 2019 at 7:33 AM Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> > That is undesirable for two primary reasons: > 1. I would not reach my primary goal of "grok how packages interact". > 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. > > TIA > > > > >
