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diff --git a/metadata/news/2020-04-03-deprecation-of-legacy-x11-input-drivers/2020-04-03-deprecation-of-legacy-x11-input-drivers.en.txt b/metadata/news/2020-04-03-deprecation-of-legacy-x11-input-drivers/2020-04-03-deprecation-of-legacy-x11-input-drivers.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6f7dd7bbbc26 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2020-04-03-deprecation-of-legacy-x11-input-drivers/2020-04-03-deprecation-of-legacy-x11-input-drivers.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Title: Deprecation of legacy X11 input drivers +Author: Piotr Karbowski <slashbeast@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2020-04-03 +Revision: 2 +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 frictionless 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 running 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 +while removing 'keyboard' and 'mouse' if present, then update @world +with new USE flags + + # emerge -N @world |