Ah, I had misremembered the article as saying that the API was sufficient for "most" tasks, all it actually says is that it's the "normal" way of getting the de

Ah, I had misremembered the article as saying that the API was sufficient for "most" tasks, all it actually says is that it's the "normal" way of getting the dependency info. I was wondering if there was some less common operations (e.g. upgrading?) that needed more info beyond what was in the API.