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Solving Sudoku With dpkg

Posted by timothy on from the after-all-it's-there dept.

Reader Otter points out in his journal a very neat use for the logic contained in Debian's package dependency resolver: solving sudoku puzzles. To me at least, this is much more interesting than the sudoku puzzles themselves. Update: 08/24 02:51 GMT by T : Hackaday just ran a story that might tickle the same parts of your brain on a game played entirely with MySQL database queries.

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  1. Great by sleeponthemic · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now solve my dependency:

    dpkg --build girlfriend

    At least have it answer with some saucy ascii for christ sakes

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    I record my sleeptalking
    1. Re:Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Oh, I see your problem. You want to build a co-dependency, which dpkg can't handle.
      Try to manually build relation first, making several passes.

    2. Re:Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      dpkg --build girlfriend

      This might help you.

  2. Re:Cheat code for even Sudoku?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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