loading . . . Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution <p>Abstract: Package managers are everywhere, with seemingly every language and operating system implementing
their own solution. The lack of interoperability between these systems means that multi-lingual projects
are unable to express precise dependencies across language ecosystems, and external system and hardware
dependencies are typically implicit and unversioned. We define HyperRes, a formal system for describing
versioned dependency resolution using a hypergraph that is expressive enough to model many ecosystems and
solve dependency constraints across them. We define translations from dozens of existing package managers
to HyperRes and comprehensively demonstrate that dependency resolution can work across ecosystems
that are currently distinct. This does not require users to shift their choice of package managers; instead,
HyperRes allows for the translation of packaging metadata between ecosystems, and for solving to be precisely
specialised to a particular deployment environment</p>
<p><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/rc9mvx/solving_package_management_via">Comments</a></p> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10803
