Yes, that's the section for Accessibility features. And the way it's written does sound weird to me. I haven't looked to see if similar wording is used upstream. Thanks for pointing it out.

In my daedalus install, /etc/debian_version says "bookworm/sid". I think they switch to numbers when it goes stable, so it shows which point-release you are at.

Yes, this could be avoided in packaging, but I doubt you can change the debian devs on this. And nobody around here is going to fork the kernel. (that's my prediction)

You can avoid that and a lot of other cruft with this:

cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00norecommends 
APT::Install-Recommends "no";

I don't know if adding '--no-install-recommends' will work with 'apt upgrade'. If so, that's another way to avoid it.

I get leftover directories in /media occasionally and have one now. Looks like it's from pmount. I can't be sure if pmount made the error or if I did it by forgetting to pumount before unplugging the device or maybe by unmounting it as root. I just delete the leftovers when I find them.

With no removable media plugged in:

ls -la /media/sde2/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 22  2021 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 12 16:36 ..
-rw------- 1 root root    0 Apr 22  2021 .created_by_pmount

There's also the pool1 iso (DVD) that has 5000 packages. That's in addition to the dvd installer iso. If those two isos don't have what you want, you could get the debian isos and carefully pull packages from there. That should work for anything that doesn't depend on systemd (directly or indirectly).

If you install runit, you only get run scripts for the gettys, and also for openssh-server if you install that. No setup or linking is needed.

There are run scripts available from a couple of locations outside the repository. They can be added after the install. Basic procedure is to copy the script dir for a service to /etc/sv/, stop the init script, and then run

update-service --add /etc/sv/<service>

Where <service> is the name of the run script directory and is the same name as the init script.

Here's an explanation of the error message you got. It's beyond my understanding.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/353 … cpu0-in-ts

I have a chimaera xfce with runit, and I can share a few data points. Maybe it will help.

If I use pm-suspend to put the system to sleep, it wakes normally when I raise the lid.

If I rely on xfce4-power-manager to put it to sleep when I close the lid, it does not suspend. And the screen is locked when I raise the lid. Both of those behaviors are contrary to the settings in the power manager.

No nvidia here. It's all intel. I don't think runit is the problem, but that's just a guess. FWIW, I have enabled runit scripts for the following services:

acpid    connman  dbus getty-tty1-6 getty-ttyS0  lightdm
anacron  cron  elogind  irqbalance  mdadm    ssh

If you choose Expert install, you will get the choice of installing grub or not. If you let the installer install grub, it will make a boot entry for Void. If you don't let it add the bootloader, you will need to reboot into Void and do whatever it is you do there to add Devuan to the boot menu.

With uefi, each system that installs a bootloader will create a directory on the efi partition without removing any previous directoryies. If you install the Devuan bootloader and then want to go back to letting Void boot the computer, you can remove the Devuan entry with efibootmgr. It will be removed from the list of bootable devices that efibootmgr shows you, but the directory will still be there. You would have to do something extraordinary to screw it up permanently.

Edit /etc/rsyslog.conf and comment out the line that starts with $ActionFile... as I did below.

###########################
#### GLOBAL DIRECTIVES ####
###########################

#
# Use traditional timestamp format.
# To enable high precision timestamps, comment out the following line.
#
#$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat

Then run

service rsyslog restart

And the time stamps will look like this:

2022-02-25T15:55:46.893072-05:00

man rsyslogd or man rsyslog.conf for more info.

There's syslog-ng that's very flexible. And there are no plans to change the default syslogger in devuan.

Are you using the minimal-live or the desktop-live iso? The desktop-live already has firmware-amd-graphics installed. If that doesn't work for you, I'd like to know, thanks. How new is your hardware?

It's xscreensaver-systemd and the manpage for it says:

If you use a gui frontend network app like connman or network-manager, you should not configure the network in /etc/network/interfaces. They will likely fight with each other. Do one or the other.