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FS#19019 - Include xf86-input-evdev in xorg group

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Matthew Gyurgyik (pyther) - Friday, 09 April 2010, 23:22 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Saturday, 10 April 2010, 01:03 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I propose that xf86-input-evdev is included in the xorg group (pacman -Sg xorg)

xf86-input-evdev is needed to allow keyboards and mice to work with an xorg configuration that uses hotplugging such as 1.7 (hal) and 1.8 (udev)
Without this driver a user who installs X without xf86-input-evdev would have to way to kill x when testing with X -config /path/to/xorg.conf

An user can very easily forget about this package.
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Saturday, 10 April 2010, 01:03 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Federico Chiacchiaretta (baghera) - Saturday, 10 April 2010, 00:01 GMT
xf86-input-evdev is required by xorg-server, so it's installed automatically when you choose to install xorg-server from xorg group. It will be redundant to have it listed in xorg group.
Comment by Matthew Gyurgyik (pyther) - Saturday, 10 April 2010, 00:02 GMT
Cool thanks for letting me know. I had a feeling it was going be something like that!

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