Hi Antony,


Antony Stone wrote:
> Yes, because Devuan itself only contains packages which needed to be modified
> from the Debian packages, due to Devuan not using systemd.

That explains the term "merged", right?

>
> All packages which are not affected by systemd not being present are not
> included in Devuan, and the repositories simply forward requests through to
> the equivalent Debian repositories so that you get all the packages you need.
>
> Basically, there's no point in Devuan simply duplicating all the packages from
> Debian which don't need any modification due to systemd.

I understand, but is this forwarding automatic or do I need to add some
"extra" apt source lists?

Right now I use merged beowulf main/non-free/contrib

Thanks,
Riccardo