"Package Managers à la Carte, A Formal Model of Dependency Resolution" preprint out today: a new package calculus to describe the cambrian explosion of systems that exist today https://arxiv.org/pd...
@nprofile1q... I find it interesting that Nix is considered to do singular dependencies only, albeit there's the mention of the various frontend to transform into singular dependencies. I wonder if it has been considered that Nix could provide a builtin to perform version resolution in a package set, e.g. it should be possible given a large enough lockfile to do `builtins.resolveVersions pkgs "gcc" "≤ 14, > 9"` — nonetheless, I understand why the focus is on the peculiar approach of Nix-like systems
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