Bug#446851: xserver-xorg-core: please copy (and improve) x11-input.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 19:16 -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:46:54AM -0700, Warren Turkal wrote:
> > On 10/17/07, Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > > Because it's not clearly in the domain of Xorg. x11-input makes sense,
> > > but then again, it's largely a system decision. OTOH, XKB can be used
> > > in the console, not just in X (hence why it's namespaced input.xkb and
> > > not input.x11.xkb or so), so that's why.
> >
> > Okay...so it's the domain of xkb? Even in that case, it seems there is
> > a more appropriate place for it than hal.
> >
> > > Also, as Michel mentions, everything else is already in hal-info, so eh.
> > > The latest release includes it, AIUI.
> >
> > Well, I really don't care where it comes from, as long as it's included.
>
> I think including it in our package until HAL gets it is probably the right
> move. More package churn on the server is probably going to be a fact of
> life for a while anyway. The reason I haven't really put much work in to
> input hotplug is because I've been focused on getting output autodetection
> in better shape. Once that's done, I'll get to this if no one else beats
> me to it.
I think it would be better to listen to upstream and reassign this to
hal-info...
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