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If It Quacks Like a Package Manager

65 points by jandeboevrie

by verdverm

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On an aside, the MVS (minimum version selection) is an interesting and understandable algorithm for dependency resolution. Started from Go, CUE uses it now too.
https://research.swtch.com/vgo-mvs

by paulddraper

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> If it has transitive execution, it’s a package manager
Not really.
Spreadsheets, programming language functions, database triggers.
To be more accurate, if it downloads artifacts transitively it is a package manager.