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@ -13,11 +13,14 @@ rewrite[1] this crappy library because libinput has mandatory udev dependency.
Without libinput you can't use wayland and some other cool stuff.
Michael Forney (cproc, samurai, Oasis Linux, ... author) decided to fork[2]
libinput and remove udev mandatority. This is solution ? Yes. This is long term
solution ? No. Patching upstream changes eventually will become absolutely
nightmare. Also this fork has a lot of disadvantages like requiring static
configuration which means you can't rely on automatic input devices
discovering.
libinput and remove udev mandatority. This is solution ? Yes. This is complete
solution ? No. This fork has a lot of disadvantages like requiring patching
application from libinput_udev to libinput_netlink API in order to use
automatic detection of input devices and hotplugging. Static confuguration also
required for anything other than input devices (e.g drm devices). Moreover
hotplugging vulnerable to race conditions when libinput handles uevent faster
than device manager which can lead to file permissions issues. libudev-zero
prevents these race conditions by design.
Thanks god udev has stable API and hopefully no changes will be made in
future. On this basis i decided to create this clean-room implementation of