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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:35:49 +0400
From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Deepsolver

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 02:23:55PM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> Dmitry,
> 
> Do you feel Deepsolver is within consideration for use in Owl, instead
> of Zypper/apt-rpm/yum, which we were considering to use (only one of
> them indeed)?  Would it be more lightweight than these in terms of its
> own dependencies?

Yes, I suppose it should meet Owl requirements, assuming that c++ is
acceptable.  Is also uses libcurl for downloading index files, but that
feature is going to be optional.  At this stage of development Deepsolver
is not yet ready for regular use, though.

> http://deepsolver.org
> 
> Russian: http://www.computerra.ru/interactive/694037/
> http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=34337

Some technical documentation about deepsolver (in Russian) is also available at
http://git.altlinux.org/people/black/packages/?p=Protva-2012.git;a=blob;f=tex/thesis-deepsolver-pozhidaev.tex
http://deepsolver.altlinux.org/tech-assignment.pdf


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ldv

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