From: daniel@me.invalid   
      
   On 24/01/2026 21:11, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
   >> Raspbian doesn't copy packages from Debian, it just uses the   
   >> Debian repos. The Raspberry Pi's own repo doesn't contain   
   >> userspace packages unless they're pi-specific.   
   >   
   > This is evidently untrue simply from looking at the Raspbian repo's   
   > contents. I found out the hard way that some packages like Firefox   
   > there are built only for Debian's target ARM architectures, not the   
   > early Raspberry Pi boards.   
      
   I suppose it depends what you mean by pi-specific. Yes, there are builds   
   of some userspace applications in the pi repo (more than I realized, I   
   admit).   
      
   > Also I haven't seen the Debian repo used in Raspbian sources.list,   
   > though I haven't used the more recent RPi OS versions.   
      
   The debian.sources file in Trixie looks identical on my AMD64 box and my   
   Pi5. I don't have Bullseye installs around, any more, to check.   
      
   > Would this even work seeing as there'd be conflicting packages for   
   > the same programs? In my experience with Debian on PC, it wouldn't   
   > since Apt doesn't favour one repo over another - it just selects   
   > whichever package versions look latest.   
      
   apt is complex. It uses version numbers, priorities, pinning, and   
   preferences from /etc/apt -- it does seem to work, but I haven't worked   
   out exactly how.   
      
      
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     Daniel.   
      
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