Testing libsatsolver on Fedora

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Jul 29 06:00:17 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 17:50 -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:

> in part:
> 
>    "Conclusion
> 
>    Using SAT solver algorithms solve many of the problems the old solver had
> 
>      * speed: magnitudes faster
>      * reliable results
>      * extendibility[sic]: implementation of complex dependencies is easy
>      * sensible error reports"
> 
> Improving Fedora dependency solving speed by just one order of magnitude
> would be lovely, the plural is deliriously attractive.

Of course, that depends on whether what we have in yum is as slow as
whatever SUSE had before this. :) ISTR that SUSE was rather infamous for
very slow package manager performance before zypper came along.

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