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by ris 2885 days ago
Yet it will never be able to solve the system-library dependency problem in the way that Nix does.
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RayDonnelly 2885 days ago
It solves this already and has done for many years (but this depends on what you mean exactly by "the way that Nix does").
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kalefranz 2885 days ago
Can you elaborate? Conda packages have full metadata descriptions for system-level dependencies. I agree with you that conflicts and diamond dependencies lurk everywhere, which is precisely the reason Conda employs a SAT solver.
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