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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 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.




To clarify, I(and the OP) was specifically talking about programming language specific package managers.


puppet dependency managers have also been an issue it's certainly easy to solve poorly


You can't compare languages and os package manager. They are on a completely different scale.




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