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From: Gordon Pettey <petteyg359@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: Deprecation and removal of legacy X11 input drivers.
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 16:25:46
Message-Id: CAHY5MefT8O2KQBY6z5FUWiZ73tBh_bOPH7rj=r1U8OPEmmomOw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: Deprecation and removal of legacy X11 input drivers. by Piotr Karbowski
1 On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 10:27 AM Piotr Karbowski <slashbeast@g.o>
2 wrote:
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4 > while keeping the long sentence, that even it's long, is still beneficial
5 > to have
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8 Split it for grammatical correctness and ease of human parsing.
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10 The only use for those drivers remain in deployments which intentionally
11 > opt-out of using udev, as both evdev and libinput require udev during
12 > runtime, however given that upstream has already removed the Linux
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15 Replace with "runtime. Given that upstream"
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17 support from xf86-input-keyboard, future X11 releases will no longer
18 > support xf86-input-keyboard on Linux rendering those installation
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21 installations should be plural
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24 > infeasible to use without udev.
25 >