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		Onavo 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Lux – A luxurious package manager for Lua How do you deal with the diamond dependency problem? Do you allow two different versions of a package to be exist simultaneously?

mrcjkb 3 months ago [–]

Yes, we have a `lux-lua` library (which we will need to bundle with `lux-cli`) that exposes a `lux.loader` module. It uses the lockfile to resolve dependencies.

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