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Re:Distribution packages considered insecure by majewsky on Monday February 22, 2016 @12:59PM (#11152786)
What you call "redneck" version is actually how I manage my system configuration. :)

The metapackage is the only one that's explicitly installed, ever. (Except for workstations where I might install applications to test them.) Part of system maintenance is to clean out orphaned packages every once in a while, usually as part of the system update.

Re:Distribution packages considered insecure by stephenr on Monday February 22, 2016 @06:07PM (#11155100)
I'm a big fan of this approach too.

Combine it with config packages (using something like configure-package-dev from debathena) and you have a very nice little config management system.

Re:Distribution packages considered insecure by creshal on Monday February 22, 2016 @02:56PM (#11153753)
> What you call "redneck" version is actually how I manage my system configuration. :)

Same here. One day I'll get around to migrate everything to Ansible… one day…