[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 366] please include updated wacom input driver

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------- Additional Comments From barryn at pobox.com  2004-08-29 13:15 -------
Re: comments #1 and #2

Personally (for my own use, on my Toshiba Portege 3500) I don't need or use the
"utilities and other stuff", just the main driver itself.


Re: comment #3

>If distributions packaged the linuxwacom drivers, the end-user experience would
>be the same as if it was included in X.org.

Red Hat/Fedora's position on this issue is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118638

---begin quote from above URL---
 Additional Comment #1 From Mike A. Harris  on 2004-03-23 15:09 -------

It is best if the upstream Xorg sources directly include the new
wacom driver in the upcoming release instead, as that way there is
a common base, which is easier to maintain, and more consistent.

Can you file a request for enhancement for this in the upstream
bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org against the "xorg"
product?

Thanks in advance.
---end quote---

>Instead of including the linuxwacom drivers, I think we should work to better
>accomodate out-of-tree drivers.  The SDK goes a long way in this respect, and
>with the upcoming modularization this willl hopefully become the default.

That might be nice for the future, but in the meantime, is there a valid reason
to drag around an obsolete wacom driver in the tree? I mean, if the driver's not
going to be updated even once every several releases, shouldn't it at least be
removed altogether? (Maybe I'm not understanding something here...)        
   
   
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