Because not every user of VLC needs to see DVDs. But, IMHO, libdvdread4 could be a recommended package of VLC.

Agreed. But the mantainer of the package xfce4 dont agree with us. May be he/she thinks that the average XFCE user wants to have a nice calendar application installed by default. Different opinions, not big deal IMHO. My way of work with this is very simple: not install the package xfce4; I try to find the minimal set of packages needed to get XFCE working. This is why I need a lot of time before finish a new instalation.

The point Altoid talk about is very important for me. I like the Debian and Devuan aproach to have a very fine grained dependencies system. Other systems (even free software ones) have it more coarse. When I want a very minimal system, I dont like the attitude of "I know better" from some packagers, they say "install all this staff". We are not clueless childrens. Just an example: I skip the "Select and install software" step in the Devuan expert install and then I uninstall a few packages more; you cant do that on other systems.

Yes. Repeat the procedure. At the first error, change to another console. I dont remember if you need Ctl+Alt+F2, Ctl+Alt+F3 or Ctl+Alt+F4, but in some of them you can read a detailed log of the steps of your instalation. Hopefully, you will read a more complete error description and we will continue thinking from that point.

Have you tried install Beowulf (kernel 4.19) and then upgrade to Ceres?

No. It was Debian Jessie; this is why Devuan has a version called Jessie.

I have some boxes with Debian Jessie around. But what I hated was install a computer class with it (16 boxes). Systemd didnt work the way I wanted. So, I moved on. I'm here.

My laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 2 GHz run Devuan ASCII 64 bits very happily. I hope that yours works as fine as mine.

Thank you for your link. It is very informative.

It is very clear to me that free software needs more humanpower. Proprietary software firms pay their employees to do boring work; we dont.

I would write the required Thunar feature myself. Just waiting to reborn and have more lives to live; everybody is busy with their own staff. No regrets, this is real life.

I welcome any idea. Thanks, golinux. I will need to learn to use DMARC sooner o later. I would like to do it, but I need free time because I'm not a pro mail admin.

I've not tried it yet, mainly because I dont trust the technical knowledge of the first person at the other side of the line, and I know that in my country is very hard to get in touch with a qualified technician. But I will do it, at first in the forum that my ISP provides to their users. Thanks for your piece of advice, ralph.ronnquist.

A side note about typography and freedom. Back in the 2000's it was very very difficult to find free (as in speech) fonts. I found some good free (as in beer) fonts and mirrored in my own website before they gone. Nowadays there are lots of good free (as in speech) fonts. I check regullarly https://www.fontsquirrel.com/ for fun and profit.

I compiled qt5ct on my Devuan 2 box with the docs on the link. It works for me.

Indeed. I have a separate partition for /tmp in some boxes.

Of course. In my experience I've never go to more than 10 GB. And 4.3 is very similar to my standard install of a full desktop.

May be just a matter of taste. I think that it is powerful and simple. (I always use the "Expert install").

No, it is not experimental. It is old code by now. It get new options, but I've been using it (with Debian and Devuan) more than 10 years. 15? No glitchs. Some times hardware has errors and they get up to the installer.