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chupasaurus 22 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: NP-overrated

> I mean, installing packages and type checking can surely be slow. But, at least in my career, I've never seen a galactic blow-up.

Last time I had a galactic blow-up of apt solver (the final part of 64-bit time transition in Debian Testing) it was mere 2 GiB of memory per minute.

j16sdiz 22 days ago [–]

Exactly.

Debian allow you to choose different solver (typical Debian). It is easy to get galactic blow up if you insist.

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