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>>>>> On Thu, 02 Apr 2020, Piotr Karbowski wrote: |
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> Title: Deprecation and removal of legacy X11 input drivers. |
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Title has 52 chars which is too long (omit the full stop for a start). |
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> Author: Piotr Karbowski <slashbeast@g.o> |
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> Posted: 2020-04-02 |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 2.0 |
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> Display-If-Installed: x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse |
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> Display-If-Installed: x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard |
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> The Gentoo X11 Team is announcing the deprecation and future removal of |
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> the legacy X11 input drivers x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and |
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> x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard. As of 2020-05-01 those input drivers |
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> will be masked for removal. |
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> These drivers have been deprecated for many years, first by |
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> xf86-input-evdev and |
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Why the line break here? |
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> then by xf86-input-libinput. |
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> The only use for those drivers remain in deployments which intentionally |
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> opt-out of using udev, as both evdev and libinput require udev during |
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> runtime, however given that upstream has already removed the Linux |
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> support from xf86-input-keyboard, future X11 releases will no longer |
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> support xf86-input-keyboard on Linux rendering those installation |
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> infeasible to use without udev. |
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Very long sentence which is hard to read. |
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> In order to ensure fraction-less upgrade path for future X11 releases, |
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> we have decided to deprecate those drivers that are not in active use by |
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> pretty much any installation of Gentoo. |
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> No action is required from end-users who are already using libinput (or |
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> evdev). To check which driver is in use, one can use |
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> $ grep 'Using input driver' ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log |
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> For the systems running xorg-server as regular user (-suid |
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You don't start a new sentence here, so s/For/for/. |
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> +elogind/+systemd) or by running |
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> # grep 'Using input driver' /var/log/Xorg.0.log |
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> for those that still runs xorg-server as root. |
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s/that still runs/running/ |
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> If however neither libinput or evdev is in use, one should append |
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> 'libinput' to the INPUT_DEVICES variable inside /etc/portage/make.conf |
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> and update @world with new USE flags |
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> # emerge -N @world |
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Shouldn't users remove "keyboard" and "mouse" from their INPUT_DEVICES? |
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Ulrich |
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