Preserving Command Line Workflow for a Package Management System Using ASCII DAG Visualization

Package managers provide ease of access to applications by removing the time-consuming and sometimes completely prohibitive barrier of successfully building, installing, and maintaining the software for a system. A package dependency contains dependencies between all packages required to build and r...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 25(2019), 9 vom: 25. Sept., Seite 2804-2820
1. Verfasser: Isaacs, Katherine E (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Gamblin, Todd
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2019
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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