Bug#333921: priority of mouse template too low

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:21:15AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:24:12PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > The priority of mouse template (medium) is too low, and unsuitable for use
> > with a LiveCD: Since the /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg script intended for LiveCD
> > usage uses "-phigh" when configuring this package, mice won't be configured
> > unless they can be configured automaticaly via mdetect, which:
> > 
> >   a) doesn't always work
> >   b) doesn't work on all platforms (currently not available for GNU/kFreeBSD)
> > 
> > Please find attached patch to rise priority to high.
> 
> I don't think this template should be high unless the mouse cannot be
> detected.  On Linux/(i386|amd64|powerpc), which, last I heard, amounted
> to well over 95% of Debian archive downloads, /dev/input/mice will
> basically always work just fine.  So there's no reason to always prompt
> if you don't need to; it's insane.

What happens when auto-detection is not performed (either declined by user, or
because mdetect is not installed)?

Note:  On GNU/kFreeBSD, mdetect is not ported yet (see #319921).  I'd like to
avoid a kernel-specific dissertion, though.

-- 
Robert Millan