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Re: Function similar to {apt-cache recurse ...}?



On Friday 28 June 2019 11:21:45 Curt wrote:

> On 2019-06-28, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> >> I read the OP's question as "the total installed size including
> >> dependencies" -- assuming none of those dependencies has been
> >> installed before (ex nihilo, so to speak).
> >
> > Explicitly *YES*!
> > It's nice to have someone actually read what I write ;)
>
> Except it's kind of turtles all the way down, isn't it?

As far as we can see. After some hundreds of feet its too dark to see. 

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