On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:09:20PM +0100, Joerg Reisenweber wrote:
>
> for details on how all this works on apt level with the devuan overlay over
> debian, you rather ask nextime. My guess would be that all rogue stuff like
> systemd simply doesn't show up in devuan's packages.gz, and thus any package
> depending on it would run into unmet dependencies when trying to install it.

For devuan overlay over debian, your "unmet dependencies" would be
resolved from debian, resulting some systemd libraries (but, if they go
on as at present, not systemd as init). You'd have to pin systemd at
-1 to prevent this.

-- hendrik