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Hello! I'm a Linux admin for several versions of Linux. One thing that all of the package managers have is automatic dependency resolution. If I use apt or yum or whatever to install a package, the management tool will check the repository and install the dependencies, all at one fell swoop. This means that I no longer have to spend days downloading source code and compiling dependencies to get a package to work. With Vortex, there are certain mods that I'd like to try. But I check the "Requires", and there are several dependencies. Then as I check each dependency, THAT package has dependencies. It's like I'm twenty years ago in the bad old days of Linux again, doing everything manually for days to get one package to work, and then NEVER updating because it was such a pain to get everything to work the first time. I just want to play the game, hopefully with what look like some very cool mods. The mods have their dependencies identified in NexusMod. Isn't there some way to have an option for Vortex to (1) backup a config as it stands, (2) download the mod and all dependencies, (3) install and enable the mod and all dependencies, and if that breaks stuff (4) return to the save state? Thank you!

I see that nobody has responded in awhile, but I'd like to add something. I administer several Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. I *can* download source code and compile software, but usually I use the "yum' utility to download and install software packages. The infrastructure is such that software authors specify dependencies in xml files, and yum can work through the dependencies and download and install everything in one go. Now, I've noticed that there's a dropdown box in the download section for "mods that depend on this mod" or somesuch. So, some work somewhere is happening to track what mods depend on what other mods. How hard would it be for NMM to add functionality to download all dependencies for a mod, similar to yum? Thanks!