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著者: karl
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To: dng
題目: Re: [DNG] vdev - udev is a dead end
Didier:
> Le 14/08/2016 15:09, karl@??? a écrit :
> > Didier:
> > ...
>      - Some applications need access to detailed device properties like 
> keyboard mapping. AFAIU, the kernel  API (/sys and /proc) is always 
> changing and these changes are taken in charge by libudev to present a 
> stable API to applications like xorg. I don't know yet, but it is 
> possible that libudev makes use of some files maintained by udev, which 
> would explain the dependency. This is an area where standardization 
> would be usefull.


Xorg can be built without udev or libudev depenancies.
What you loose is implicit xorg.conf generation and something with
different lang.layouts on keyboards (the thing that made xmodmap
deprecated), and possible more things.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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