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Re:The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what? by jcelerier on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @04:22AM (#17186012)
> 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). 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.

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Re:The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what? by pcx on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @05:20AM (#17186257)
To clarify, I(and the OP) was specifically talking about programming language specific package managers.
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Re:The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what? by lathiat on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @06:28AM (#17186506)
puppet dependency managers have also been an issue it's certainly easy to solve poorly
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Re:The vgo proposal is accepted. Now what? by sametmax on Thursday May 31, 2018 @06:20PM (#17200840)
You can't compare languages and os package manager. They are on a completely different scale.
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