This seems to do it at 93 (but there should be ways to shorten it): 
sub f {
$h{$_}||=[]for map@$_,%h=@_;sub x{my$x=1;$x+=x($_)for@{@h{@_}||[]};$x}
+sort{x($a)<=>x$b}keys%h
}

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that's: 
sub f {
  $h{$_}||=[]for map@$_,%h=@_;
  sub x {
    my$x=1;
    $x+=x($_)for@{@h{@_}||[]};
    $x
  }
  sort{x($a)<=>x$b}keys%h
}

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I think this algorithm is in the panther book[1].   The basic idea is that if you count the dependencies all the way down, then something which depends on something else must have a count of at least 1 more than its depender(?).   Neither the exact counts, nor exactly what's being counted matter (that is 'a' can count 'd' in both 'b' and 'c').

[1](update) Well, something like it.   I don't want to blame the authors for my crude implementation.

one more update:     @h{@$_}=@h{@$_}for%h=@_;and   $x+=x($_)for@{@h{@_}||0};lowers it to 88.

well, one more update:   Actually, there's no need to add all those 1's, just let the size of the list be the value: 
  sub x {
    1,map{x($_)}@{@h{@_}||0}
  }

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which makes the whole thing 78: @h{@$_}=@h{@$_}for%h=@_;sub x{1,map{x($_)}@{@h{@_}||0}}sort{x($a)<=>x$b}keys%h    p

In reply to Re: (Golf) Dependency List Prioritization by petral
in thread (Golf) Dependency List Prioritization by tadman

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