libsolv riscv64 f2953033ea20e1cde6c29079a5d1548c1842497de3e4504eb1a950f8ea7eba98 Package dependency solver and repository storage system Solving dependencies is the core functionality for any software management application on Linux. Dependencies are used to divide and share functionalities across multiple software elements. Linux (and Unix) follows two basic concepts to implement Divide & Conquer - breaking a large problem into smaller, more manageable ones. * Make each program do one thing well. See Basics of the Unix Philosophy for details. * Use shared libraries to share implementations and save disk and memory space Every software package expresses the functionalities it provides to others and those it requires from others through dependencies. The task of the dependency resolver is to check and fulfill all these relations when managing software. Basic laws of resolving The dependency solver tries to solve dependencies without user intervention based on two basic rules * Fulfill the install/remove requests given at start * Keep the (dependencies of the) installed system consistent Since the solver treats every package alike, these rules have some major and sometimes unexpected implications. A broken dependency might result in removal of lots of packages - the resulting system is still consistent but highly unusable. http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Libzypp_satsolver