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I'm in the process of bringing my server to life. I have already installed Proxmox onto it and now I'm in the bootstrapping stage whereby I'm planning to manually install a minimum number of VMs to get a minimal amount of services going to be able to access the internet and start using IaC. Problem is, one of the services is a PostgreSQL database. I ran:

apt-cache rdepends postgresql

This resulted in dozens of dependencies. Not something I want to do manually. Or should I bite the bullet and have at it? Is installing a bunch of packages frowned upon?

Just to elaborate, my server at the moment, doesn't have internet access. So I was planning on doing offline installs of the minimum set of VMs with PostgreSQL being on one of these VMs.

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  • "Is installing a bunch of packages frowned upon?" yes that sounds like an extremely bad idea. Why do you think you need to install these manually? That's not clear. And install on what? A VM? The Host machine? Why do you care about the rdepends? This all makes not that much sense, I'm afraid. Commented May 15 at 11:23
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    Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking. Commented May 15 at 11:24
  • I think you're misunderstanding what rdepends is telling you. It's not telling you the packages that postgresql will want you to install (the dependencies). It's telling you which packages, if you install one of them, will want you to also install postgresql. That's what reverse dependencies are. Commented May 15 at 11:47
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    @Xoteric it's still not clear why you'd think you'd need to install these packages. And you still haven't answered whether this is installing in a VM or the host machine. Commented May 15 at 11:48
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    @Xoteric thanks for the edit. But this makes no sense: why provision a VM offline? Provision it online, then transfer the VM image to your host, instead of transferring a bunch of packages. Commented May 15 at 11:49

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