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 > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
