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Updated with what Ulm and Soup pointed out, while keeping the long |
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sentence, that even it's long, is still beneficial to have. Revision |
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--- news item below --- |
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Title: Deprecation of legacy X11 input drivers |
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Author: Piotr Karbowski <slashbeast@g.o> |
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Posted: 2020-04-03 |
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Revision: 2 |
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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 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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In order to ensure frictionless upgrade path for future X11 releases, we |
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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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+elogind/+systemd) or by running |
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# grep 'Using input driver' /var/log/Xorg.0.log |
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for those running xorg-server as root. |
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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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while removing 'keyboard' and 'mouse' if present, then update @world |
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with new USE flags |
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# emerge -N @world |
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-- Piotr. |
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