Published on: 2025-06-16 22:05:15
As you may recall from previous posts and elsewhere I have been busy writing a new solver for APT. Today I want to share some of the latest changes in how to approach solving. The idea for the solver was that manually installed packages are always protected from removals – in terms of SAT solving, they are facts. Automatically installed packages become optional unit clauses. Optional clauses are solved after manual ones, they don’t partake in normal unit propagation. This worked fine, say you
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