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More fun stuff this week.
The first thing you will have noticed is that the website has had a redesign. The idea behind it was to mimic a markdown/txt file while keeping nice features like clickable links and images around.
Another new addition to the website is the packages page. This is a full listing of each package in the repositories with version and maintainer information.
The page is updated automatically with changes to the repositories. The raw repository data is also available as a simple tsv file.
This week I worked on making it possible to replace eudev with the device manager of your choosing.
I am now happy to announce that I now run my system using busybox mdev as my device manager. What's really neat is that I also managed to make my system work without a device manager.
There are caveats to replacing udev, however. Xorg loses its ability to automatically discover devices and libinput loses access to its "Quirks" database.
If these don't bother you, I have written a Wiki page which explains the process and includes all of the information you'll need.
Replacing eudev with mdev (or another device manager)
I'd like to thank Michael Forney who maintains a fork of libinput which makes udev an optional dependency.
The packaging hub Repology.org has tracked KISS' repositories for a long while now. This week, support was added to also track who maintains each package.
Each maintainer of a KISS package now has their own page on Repology with additional feeds they are able to subscribe to. This eases the burden on myself to notify maintainers when their packages are out of date!
https://github.com/kisslinux/community/issues?q=is%3Aissue+out+of+date+is%3Aclosed
As an example, here is my Repology maintainer page:
I'd like to thank Dmitry Marakasov for providing this invaluable service and for his continued support of KISS.
I have now included an additional method of showing your support to KISS. One in which you receive something physical in return!
T-shirts and stickers are available in the following link and feature... I'll let you decipher this puzzle.
Thanks for supporting KISS!
The "Simple Opinionated Window Manager" received an update this week to fix a widespread issue of keybindings not working on some systems.
This is a simple Window Manager I started working on a while ago which sees a lot of use by users of KISS.
You can find the new release on GitHub in the link below.
https://github.com/dylanaraps/sowm
8b5f266 libass: Remove fribidi dependency
ee0f44e qt5: Remove udev dependency
b6494a9 xorg-server: Make udev dependency optional
1973da2 libinput: optional udev
7b9d38a libxkbcommon: move from community
5086edb qt5-webengine: Fix udev removal
0592cc4 busybox: Add initial mdev
e33b642 busybox: Remove broken mdev rule
19829ea baseinit: bump to 0.2.2
906e3e7 busybox: mdev: Fix /dev/snd
d73defb xf86-video-intel: Make eudev optional
e12510b libva: new package at 2.6.0
1b6cee8 libva-utils: new package at 2.6.0
96c0241 intel-vaapi-driver: new package at 2.4.0
7b518cc intel-media-driver: new package at 19.4.0r
3bc5d51 curl: Don't link to icu
3dc27c4 kiss-utils: bump to 0.70.0
45f92eb curl: don't link to libpsl
249a5fa python-mako: bump to 1.1.1
0ce3c16 qt5: Fix libexec error
9933167 util-linux: bump to 2.35
390d2f0 qt5: Don't link against execinfo.h take two
207b4c5 dosfstools: new package at 4.1
f3a6a38 mandoc: Fix build with new gnumake
a870165 nodejs: bump to 13.7.0
7f6c33c git: Build with perl if available
c64afb1 mandoc: Simplify package and fix pointless error
d7a4e9f gcc: fix libgomp relocation. Patch applied from @ioraff
b257d85 sqlite: bump to 3.31.0
ffcad57 kiss: Track maintainers through CI
1e33ac8 kiss: Track maintainers through CI
818abe2 repo: Revert CI changes
65bd6ad libevent: move to extra
72be609 falkon: Added optional open-in-mpv extension
d26891b neatvi: update to latest git (#238)
863972b new package: youtube-dl 2020.01.15
bf615f9 new package dosfstools 4.1 (#239)
5f38736 new package: strace 4.1
0b0ca02 rename to youtube-dl-git
6b6f4f8 remove gawk dep from strace
eb41e4b use "git" version, drop .git suffix
7beaa36 update chksm and build
92b55df pkcs11-helper: bump to 1.26
d927e17 sic-git: new package at git (#233)
5f18842 gnupatch: new package at 2.7.6
70d390a vimb: new package at 3.6.0 (#244)
d8ed06d gnupatch: remove duplicate package
1b4c1d3 pinentry-dmenu: new package at 0.1.1
77febc9 webkit2gtk: bump to 2.26.3
bc94b84 vimb: run make with /usr prefix
981b224 sic-git: change source
921b818 parted: new package at 3.3 (#249)
2ba8232 New package: tdb at 1.4.3
6b19de7 imagemagick: bump to 7.0.9-17
206c82a libxkbcommon: move to official repositories
2056a5a dosfstools: move to official repos
dc5b2c3 libevent: move to official repositories.
fea6437 osh: bump to 0.7.pre11
fb14a6a doas: fix kiss env (#237)
5e9655a doas: fix env and checksums (#240)