evdev on non-Linux systems (Re: [PATCH 01/12] dbus-core: Move to hw/xfree86/common dir)

Mouse mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Thu Jan 30 06:36:14 PST 2014


> let me rephrase this though: by not having evdev you're missing out
> on user-space components that rely on it, and those are only going to
> get more while maintenance of the non-evdev components will be
> reduced.

One of X's strengths used to be its cross-platform support.  The MIT
sample server had its weaknesses, but it ran on a _lot_ of hardware and
software pairings.

Is X.org dropping - has X.org dropped - that?  Sure sounds like it.

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