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by alkonaut 791 days ago
What I meant was that for maybe 3-4 packages total in a year, automation doesn't matter much. It's not a big cost. Risk wise you can be pretty conservative if you are in a high-risk scenario.

But usually I find that bumping dependencies is a detective work because unlike JS where you can depend on multiple versions of the same package, for .NET you can't. So if you update package A, there is a risk that you also update a transitive dependency C, which package B depends on but on the previous version. So even for what looks like trivial updates it's often a chore. Which is why I'm happy to have just a handful of dependencies.