If the developers of devuan are paying a lot of attention to the various discussions on here about init systems, audio, getting rid of pulseaudio and other 'pet-hates' then it slows down the implementation of
Plan A:-
get rid of systemd. Preferably all references to it such as systemd-shim will be gone too.

If things such as vdev _have_ to become part of devuan to make that happen then so be it.

Only when there is a proper release of devuan so that anybody who wants to can build a working devuan server for use in a production environment is Plan A complete.

And then all those 'wants' and 'pet-hates' and 'can XFCE be the default desktop' become relevant and the developers can decide on their priorities.

Meanwhile, the Alpha release works, feel free to use it. I have been using it but various XFCE irritations for normal people made me do a full debian jessie install with systemd and all. I soooo wish I hadn't! desktop-file-utils, thunar and other packages don't install properly but do actually work. At every update upgrade cycle dpkg complains about them not being configured.
XFCE doesn't work at all.
There were the same unconfigured problems with mate, I won't install gnome or kde so I used twm (it is a good job I am so old I can remember when twm was about all there was!), but now my old iMac and me are happily working with ctwm.
What fun! (But not for the normal people that have to use my computer)

DaveT


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