2026-09-24T20:48:50Z https://nostr.now ryan https://nostr.now/npub124tq660z34cuyuth8rlwwj4y38s9ykfn2s3af52dhkx4ygpkxvpsg32ca5 https://mastodon.freumh.org/system/accounts/avatars/109/399/873/236/018/925/original/79fb81295e4a4917.jpg https://mastodon.freumh.org/system/accounts/avatars/109/399/873/236/018/925/original/79fb81295e4a4917.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsvvmvaqn9plwpp356jxstrmc2a3v72gepgd06h5dwxwzy4nan0enczyp24vrtfu2xhrsn3wuu0ae625jy7q5jexd2z84x3fk7c653qxcesxph4dml In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgxln62mhanq382j45r3xex6tjqxdnpc6dp9mvlemkjg6c9eexeaqjmfvhs'>nevent1q…fvhs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hi <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1epyahyq7kewv4d5g75ju90k24vauuhxw8h4pvay39uptum9uw55sl2hv3y" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Simon Tournier</span> (<span class="italic">npub1epy…hv3y</span>)</a></span> !<br/><br/>It is a bit dense in places :-) But the diagrams try to get the intuition across!<br/><br/>We&#39;re focusing on _dependency resolution_ in this paper: the varying semantics package managers have for expressing dependencies.<br/><br/>I think Build Systems à la Carte (doi.org/10.1145/3236774) is a better model of Nix and Guix, because they focus their semantics on the building of software and leave dependency resolution to manual packaging or ecosystem specific tooling (foo2nix tools).<br/><br/>1/2 2026-09-24T19:01:31Z