Bug#722291: Bug 722291

[Peter S <visserthree@gmail.com>]

Thanks, that explains a lot.

It's still a rough edge which needs work.  This package is installed
by default, so it could bother anybody:
xorg/xserver-xorg/xserver-xorg-input-all/xserver-xorg-input-joystick
... so a new user plugging a joystick or controller into a computer is
a recipe for a lost user.  What do we do about it?
We could disable this module by default, and have it pop up the
manpage in a terminal window if a joystick is plugged in while X is
running.

Whatever we do, we don't want X to automatically initialize a joystick
as a pointing device and start workspace warping with no explanation
given, because that's... just messy.

We could write a better description for the package while we're here:
"This packages provides the driver for joysticks and gamepads as
pointing devices on an X11 desktop." [...]