"Freedom" is not external.  It is internal. We all have the freedom to choose actions that are driven by selfish motivations or hatred or deluded fantasies or to choose actions that are motivated by generosity or compassion or the reality that no one is doing anything to us.  In the end, we are doing it to ourselves with every action either verbal, physical or mental.  This requires clear attention and accepting responsibility for the consequences.  IOW, license is not freedom.  It is indulgence and bondage to behaviors that in the end cause grief to oneself and others.

Welcome to the forum!  FYI . . . next time try Torvalds . . .  Murdoch shouldn't have worked.

All empires decay into excess and decadence then are replaced by something "new" which eventually ends  in a similar way.  Why?  Because humans are deeply flawed and do not learn from experience or history.  They just react and make up stories to justify those actions thinking that they are actually important in the grand scheme of things.

I have a custom action to launch Thunar as root in a Beowulf VB pkexec thunar %F.  Same can be done to open a specific file with a text editor.  Pluma FTW!  And in the panel I use synaptic-pkexec.  Might not work in ceres though . . .

Disclaimer . . . I have mostly used that instance of beowulf to theme for chimaera so not given it hard daily use.

Or better yet, just don't use "appimage" at all.  I suspect that there aren't many devuan users who would touch it.

Isn't lockin the whole point of GNOME/systemd?  I could see that coming 6 years ago and abandoned ship . . .

Indeed, freedom includes the right to make good and bad decisions.  To succeed or fail.  IOW it includes the right to make brilliant and/or stupid choices as well.  I suppose it can be argued whether collective knowledge from past experience of others is right or wrong or restrictive of freedom.  So yes, you have the right to stick a screwdriver into a live electrical socket. Whether that is "freedom" is debatable.

If Debian has it and it is not on Devuan's banned package list, Devuan repos will provide that package.  That's what "merged" does.

https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/poli … q=libraw19

@Ulysses_ . . . no one here is interested in your political rants.  If you want to continue posting here, please leave them at the door.

Devuan has a round-robin of package mirrors:
http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/mirror_list.txt

iso mirrors and package repository mirrors are two different things. 

@rolfie . . . An "Invisible ink" trick?

https://refracta.org/docs/readme.refractasnapshot.txt

refracta tools - installer and snapshot - are in the Devuan repos