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