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21st August 2008 - Link Blog

Package Management Sudoku. "A package management system that can solve Sudoku based on package dependency rules is not something that I think would be useful or worth having" - like a red flag to a bull. (Internet Archive)

Posted 21st August 2008 at 7:09 pm

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