Intrepid seed tidying

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Mon Jul 14 09:00:12 BST 2008


On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:32:45AM +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:25:56 +0100
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > inputattach is in standard, with the justification that it's needed for
> > serial mice and joysticks.  Mice and joysticks are desktop things.
> 
> Not quite. I haven't used a serial mouse with gpm, but if it's possible,
> then mouse functionality in a tty / vt could be affected?
> 
> Not major, I admit.

We don't install gpm by default either, and it's capable of using serial
mice without inputattach.

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 - mdz



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