nixos/multitouch: remove (properly known as mtrack) #78004
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On numerous occasions I have seen users mistake this module as libinput because it being called "multitouch" and them being unaware that the actually module they want is libinput. They then run into several decrepit bugs due to the completely out-of-date nature of the underlying package. The underlying package hasn't been changed to an up-to-date fork in a period of 8 years. I don't consider this to be production quality. However, I'm not opposed for the module being readded to NixOS with new packaging, and a better name.
The source repo doesn't exist and it hasn't been touched in 8 years. There is also no module to interface with it in NixOS.
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Motivation for this change
On numerous occasions I have seen users mistake this
module as libinput because it being called "multitouch"
and them being unaware that the actually module they want
is libinput. They then run into several decrepit bugs due
to the completely out-of-date nature of the underlying package.
The underlying package hasn't been changed to an up-to-date
fork in a period of 8 years. I don't consider this to be production quality.
However, I'm not opposed for the module being readded to NixOS
with new packaging, and a better name.
On a realer note
Literally the woes of people on social sites, irc, pms, and twitter 馃ぃ.
Somehow this is a common confusion.
Things done
sandboxinnix.confon non-NixOS linux)nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"./result/bin/)nix path-info -Sbefore and after)