@hipsterelectron @Lightfighter @TodePond Fair, don't mean to frame it as an easy or solved problem; it seems less of an issue nowadays on the user end for the big distro package managers (will defer to your judgement of how good current solutions are, it's a bit out of my scope), but, it was for a while a selling point of slackware's approach of 'You could just not." lol
@miss_rodent @Lightfighter @TodePond noooooo i think it TOTALLY validates your position actually. i'm saying this as someome who loves graph theory and realizes the problem we want it to solve is very hard to parameterize
@hipsterelectron @Lightfighter @TodePond Fair, yeah it seems like a difficult thing to manage - especially if you don't control the packages themselves (and thus, can't do things like, ensure no package specifies a *specific* version of a library, rather than "versions X or later", or that no packages depend on features/behaviours that were removed after some version, etc.)