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1 SAT-Solver
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3 Using a Satisfyability Solver to compute package dependencies.
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5 See http://idea.opensuse.org/content/ideas/fast-installation-tool
6 for the motivation.
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9 This code is based on two major, but independent, blocks
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11 1. Using a dictionary approach to store and retrieve package
12    and dependency information.
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14 2. Using satisfiability, a well known and researched topic, for
15    computing package dependencies.
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18 Google for 'sat solver' to get links to the theory behind it.
19 http://pinboard.in/u:kkaempf/t:solver gives a collection of bookmarks
20 related to this topic.
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22 Some research papers are in doc/pdf.
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24 Everything else is below doc.
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26 Please subscribe to zypp-devel@opensuse.org for any questions.
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28 * How to build
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30 Requires: cmake 2.4.x
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32 mkdir build
33 cd build
34 cmake ..
35 make
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37 To install ruby bindings:
38 make install
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40 To create a package
41 make srcpackage
42 see package/