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Today I ran into an interesting question, why am I being asked to configure
tzdata while installing npm. Turns out that the aptitude cli has a why
command that very handily nails down why you have something installed on a
debian based system.
Install aptitude
apt install aptitude
Why tzdata
Now we can query why we need tzdata and see the full chain with the root
package being npm.
root@47685221fb82:/# aptitude why tzdata i npm Depends node-gyp i A node-gyp Depends gyp (>= 0.1+20200513gitcaa6002) i A gyp Depends python3:any i A python3 Provides python3:any i A python3 Depends python3.12 (>= 3.12.3-0~) i A python3.12 Depends tzdata