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From: David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 19:49:02
Message-Id: 4FA43278.3010206@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Chromium bundled code by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Friday 04 May 2012 15:25:58 David Leverton wrote:
3 >> If it really is just for joysticks etc it might be worth seeing if it
4 >> can be made to use XInput instead. Maybe upstream had a specific reason
5 >> not do it that way in the first place, but in general, X apps really
6 >> shouldn't be touching the input devices directly.
7 >
8 > why require X ? :)
9 > -mike
10
11 I wasn't aware that Chromium on Linux supported anything else (and at
12 least the current ebuild has hard deps on X libraries), but when it is
13 running on X it ought to follow X conventions, even if it does something
14 else in other circumstances.