An amusing and telling picture that shows how dependency tracking for and libcurl does not work at all, is to check out GitHub's view of all repositories that depend on curl.

I mean, there are quite a few repositories on there, so the number could be high.

Or it could be... one.

shows one (single) package that depends on the curl repository
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