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Luet uses Container runtimes to build packages in a reproducible manner.
It provides an abstraction over the Dockerfile format introducing relation and versioning of images.

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Luet uses SAT Solving techniques to compute the dependencies graph.
This allows to refer to docker images by using semver constraints.

No Relational db is involved.
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If you like to play with code, check out our issues that are marked as ["good first issue"](https://github.com/mudler/luet/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22) and open a [Pull Request](https://github.com/mudler/luet/pulls) on **GitHub**. 
New users are always welcome, and have fun!
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Use container abstraction to define package repositories. Intermediate build images are pushed along to guarantee reproducible builds.
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<h1 class="text-center">Releasing is not anymore a nightmare</h1>
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Build, ship and delivery your software. Faster
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When Luet is used as installer, it has zero dependencies. 

Your system can't break anymore
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Thanks to its SAT core, Luet can reconstruct images defined by dependencies and version constraints. 

Building a de-facto tree of container images
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