> Unfortunately, I have also had to recompile some packages to remove systemd dependencies as well. And I think that's exactly what Devuan does - they recompil

> Unfortunately, I have also had to recompile some packages to remove systemd dependencies as well. And I think that's exactly what Devuan does - they recompiled/rebuild the packages with funny dependencies that caused systemd to creep back in. The rest are just the normal Debian packages. They even forward you to the Debian download servers for those. The advantage of using Devuan is that they have spent tome to do this work, once, so now not everyone who wants to use Debian without systemd has to spent all this work again. Yes, the Debian devs could have easily done this themselves. For some reason they decided not to.