Quoting KatolaZ (katolaz@???):

> I just wonder whether your nice solution is enough for a wider
> audience used to have things popping up around all the time. I guess
> it's not, as much as setnet is not a solution to manage networks
> palatable to a wider audience, as much as apt-get is not the tool used
> by the large majority of users to install packages, and so on.
>
> Tinkerers will always be fine. But a distro that aims to be universal
> like Devuan must also cater for those who are not willing to tinker
> around, IMHO.

I'm quoting the above in order to express appreciation for it -- in
context. Like Steve Litt, I favour the smallest possible entanglement
with Freedesktop.org 'desktop' components and their characteristic
tangled dependency trees and difficult-to-justify complications,
-=but=- the key fact is that Devuan Project has committed to be a
universal operating system, construed as including DE-style software
integration.

I would not have supported that commitment, personally, but nonetheless
can summon the wisdom to avoid expecting this project to abandon its
principles just because I don't share some of them. And I thank you for
aptly restating those principles.