Yes I agree it would be nice.

I don't go through all the outer pages though. Usually just google "debian
slim package" and go straight to the page

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/x11/slim

ozi

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 02:16:45PM -0400, fsmithred wrote:
> > On 06/13/2017 11:01 AM, golinux@??? wrote:
> > > On 2017-06-13 06:59, aitor wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >> On 06/12/2017 12:00 PM, Jaromil <jaromil@???>wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> On Sun, 11 Jun 2017, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Debian has a useful page, https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
> > >>>> [1],
> > >>>> which you get to via packages.debian.org
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Is there anything similar for devuan?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> https://www.devuan.org/distrib/packages [2] does not work.
> > >>>> Nor does https://packages.devuan.org/ [3]
> > >>>
> > >>> indeed, we are lacking behind on this front.
> > >>>
> > >>> these were some past attempts lead by hellekin, but I think we may
> > >>> have to start from scratch. we shall discuss this in the next
> > >>> dev-meeting.
> > >>>
> > >>> ciao
> > >>
> > >> The second one works for me.
> > >>

> > >>    Aitor.

> > >>
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Yes, for me also
> > >
> > > golinux
> > > _______________________________________________
> >
> >
> > There's also https://files.devuan.org/devuan_jessie/
> > Each iso has a corresponding package list file.
> >
> > The searchable web interface is nice. The one that Debian provides
> > conveniently also works for 99% of the packages in Devuan.
>
> Agreed. So I use it. But it doesn't tell me which packages belong to
> the 1% that isn't the same or doesn't have the same dependencies in
> Devuan.
>
> And sometimes I do want to know what packages are in ascii or ceres
> instead of the jessie that's specified in my sources.list file.
>
> Is it difficult to convert the packages.debian.org software that Deban
> uses? Or is it just a matter of too many things to do?
>
> -- hendrik
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