Bug#827018: xserver-xorg-input-all: Don't depend on x-x-input-synaptics
On 14/06/16 12:54, Nicolas Le Cam wrote:
> 2016-06-14 10:49 GMT+02:00 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>:
>> On 14/06/16 07:46, Nicolas Le Cam wrote:
>> Non-GNOME DEs can't configure the libinput driver yet. Just like GNOME can't
>> configure the synaptics driver anymore. So with that change we would fix one but
>> break the others.
>>
>> We will deal with this one way or another. It's just not clear yet what the best
>> solution is.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Emilio
>
> Thanks Emilio,
>
> I see there is a similar change started for the wacom driver, but not
> completed yet.
> What about making something similar for synaptics ?
> i.e. make x-x-input-all recommends synaptics only instead of depending
> on it and make DEs not able to configure libinput driver yet depend on
> it.
We thought about that, but that won't help on a default install or an upgrade,
synaptics will still be present in those cases.
Emilio
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