On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 01:09:56PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola via Dng wrote:
> 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

The forwarding is automatic.

-- hendrik

>
> Thanks,
> Riccardo
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