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> The speed of the solver is not a problem in any other package management system I've seen really ? It has been a large problem in Debian for instance and has
by jcelerier 8y ago
> The speed of the solver is not a problem in any other package management system I've seen
really ? It has been a large problem in Debian for instance and has enabled a lot of research (https://scholar.google.fr/scholar?q=debian+solver https://scholar.google.fr/scholar?q=debian+solver). One of the reason for Fedora's yum -> dnf change was also a change of solver. It's a hard problem that affects a lot of people.
- pcx 8y agoTo clarify, I(and the OP) was specifically talking about programming language specific package managers.
- lathiat 8y agopuppet dependency managers have also been an issue it's certainly easy to solve poorly
- sametmax 8y agoYou can't compare languages and os package manager. They are on a completely different scale.