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On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 22:11:59 +0200, Alarig Le Lay wrote: |
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> The news item from 2020-04-03 says “future removal of the legacy X11 |
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> input drivers x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and |
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> x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard“ |
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> However, emerge --depclean doesn’t try to remove them. The INPUT_DEVICES |
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> is commented out in make.conf but emerege --info does contain the |
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> deprecated drivers: |
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> alarig@pikachu ~ % grep INPUT_DEVICES /etc/portage/make.conf |
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> #INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" |
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> alarig@pikachu ~ % emerge --info | grep -Po |
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> '\KINPUT_DEVICES="([[:lower:]](\s?))+"' INPUT_DEVICES="libinput |
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> keyboard mouse" |
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> Which is the concatenation of INPUT_DEVICES="libinput" from |
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> profiles/default/linux/make.defaults and INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" |
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> from profiles/base/make.defaults. |
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> So, I think that the INPUT_DEVICES variable pushed by the base profile |
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> should be updated. |
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Isn't the key that the news item says "future removal". Devs have been |
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criticised in the past by documenting these changes too late, sometimes |
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after they have been implemented. This time they seem to be giving us |
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fair warning and time to get our systems in order. My results are similar |
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to yours so I expect that the deprecated drivers will be depcleaned when |
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the future becomes the present. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to |
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build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to |
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produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." -- |
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Rich Cook |
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