I used to think package managers and dependency resolvers were inseperable, I even did a little bit of work on the APT resolver.
Since using GNU Guix though, I'm so glad it doesn't have a dependency resolver as part of building or installing packages! It's so much better for it, no slow or unpredictable resolving, you know what it's going to do.
I think this is one reason why I've never used pip for managing Python software, I've only ever used Debian, and then Guix.
Since using GNU Guix though, I'm so glad it doesn't have a dependency resolver as part of building or installing packages! It's so much better for it, no slow or unpredictable resolving, you know what it's going to do.
I think this is one reason why I've never used pip for managing Python software, I've only ever used Debian, and then Guix.