On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:15 PM Caveman Al Toraboran < toraboracave...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 9:34 PM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > > Dependency resolution is indeed a (formally) hard problem. Solving the > > traveling salesman problem is also hard. Solving the traveling salesman > > problem while being punched in the face is even harder. When I complain > > about portage being slow, what I mean is that I want to stop being > > punched in the face so that I can concentrate all of my energy on the > > underlying hard problem. > > any reason why is it a traveling salesman problem, > and not just a tree walk with heuristics to handle > exceptions (e.g. cycles)? > > You can see more information about the portage dependency solver situation with this mailing list post: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/40f9585ba6a9850eb82853d945d608eb The github repository in question is here: https://github.com/HyVar/gentoo_to_mspl/ Note: I have nothing to do with this project, I just remembered the mailing list post, and thought it was a good idea.
