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This is not my experience at all. Doing an “apt dist-upgrade” after not upgrading for a week or two regularly takes _minutes_ on my i7-8700K to resolve dependencies.



Apt doesn't use a SAT solver it only removes conflicts if it finds them: https://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/en/ch02s03s02.html


I've never seen this. Do you use only packages from your distro ?




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