Posted May 30, 2019
And they are handled by the package manager, which automatically installs them when needed.
(Interestingly, dependency resolution is NP-complete; some years back, someone was able to get apt-get's dependency resolver to solve sudoku puzzles; unfortunately, the article about that seems to be gone now.)
Edit: Replaced a bit of computer science terminology with something I'm more sure about. (s/Turing/NP)
(Interestingly, dependency resolution is NP-complete; some years back, someone was able to get apt-get's dependency resolver to solve sudoku puzzles; unfortunately, the article about that seems to be gone now.)
Edit: Replaced a bit of computer science terminology with something I'm more sure about. (s/Turing/NP)
Post edited May 30, 2019 by dtgreene