Re: [RFC] Synaptics Touchpad driver for xorg
Mattia Dongili wrote:
> Hello XFS and other readers (like me).
>
> I'm working on the transition of the xfree86-driver-synaptics toward the
> new XOrg packages and they will closely follow the same route of the
> XOrg packages.
> They are available at:
> http://people.debian.org/~malattia/debian
> or for the impatients:
> deb http://people.debian.org/~malattia/debian binary/
> deb-src http://people.debian.org/~malattia/debian source/
> and are called xorg-driver-synaptics.
>
> One question to the XSF tough (which I already asked when first naming
> the package): having to rename the package wouldn't make sense finding
> a less explicit name?
Totally. X.org seems to be using funny names for its drivers along the
lines of "xf86-input-synaptics"; maybe that would work for you?
> I mean, as the same binary package of the
> synaptics driver can actually work with both xserver-xfree86 and
> xserver-xorg (tested) maybe something like xdriver-synaptics-touchpad or
> xdriver-input-synaptics. This way I could also relax dependencies
> (xserver instead of xserver-*) and probably make thing easier for
> backports. What do you think?
>
> Greetings!
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