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It's likely that I missed it, but I can't find anywhere that talks about how many packages deviate from Debian. I love what they are offering but I also want to make sure that the ease of use I get with Debian continues with Devuan.

Can we assume that any packages that are not Gnome related from the Debian repos are in the Devuan repos?




This video[0] (dated Nov 29, 2016) says 381 forked packages. That's not nearly as bad as it sounds because many individual software projects are divided up into multiple packages.

For example, libvirt[1] produces 9 packages consisting of: libvirt-bin, libvirt-clients, libvirt-daemon, libvirt-daemon-system, libvirt0, libvirt0-dbg, libvirt-doc, libvirt-dev, libvirt-sanlock.

The video is rather interesting for learning about how the project came about and how it works in general.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMvyOGawNwo

[1]: https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/libvirt/blob/master/d...




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