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Depth-first topological ordering

Over the last few months, I have written several posts on the package installation graphs specifically, Topological Sort of Packages, Installation order for opam packages and Transitive Reduction of Package Graph. In this post, I’d like to cover a alternative ordering solution.

21 Jul 2025

Marc Elvers

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Installation order for opam packages

Previously, I discussed the installation order for a simple directed acyclic graph without any cycles. However, opam packages include post dependencies. Rather than package A depending upon B where B would be installed first, post dependencies require X to be installed after Y. The post dependencies only occur in a small number of core OCaml packages.

31 Mar 2025

Marc Elvers

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