This week in KISS (#8)

25/01/2020: This week in KISS (#8)

More fun stuff this week.

Index

• Eudev can now be replaced
• Repology now tracks KISS maintainers
• Official Repositories

Website redesign

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.

• Code blocks now feature a scroll bar if wider than the screen ( instead of wrapping into an unintelligible mess ).
• The text width is now wider ( 80 characters ) and the awful skinny column is gone.
• The website still features a lightweight size, with no ads, tracking, js or cookies. Here's a speed test! Pingdom results

Packages page

Another new addition to the website is thepackages 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.

• Package listings: https://getkiss.org/packages
• Raw data: https://getkiss.org/packages/db.tsv

Eudev can now be replaced

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.

• Wiki: 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.

Repology now tracks KISS maintainers

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 This eases the burden on myself to notify maintainers when their packages are out of date!

As an example, here is my Repology maintainer page: https://repology.org/maintainer/dylan.araps%40gmail.com

I'd like to thank Dmitry Marakasov for providing this invaluable service and for his continued support of KISS.

Merchandise

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.

• teespring

Thanks for supporting KISS!

sowm 1.2 released

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

Official Repositories

• Dylan Araps :
  • 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
  • 269b5ac bison: bump to 3.5.1
  • de5f9f2 make: bump to 4.3
  • 0592cc4 busybox: Add initial mdev
  • 41b37a9 busybox: mdev support
  • e33b642 busybox: Remove broken mdev rule
  • ab39775 nss: Fix depends
  • 19829ea baseinit: bump to 0.2.2
  • 906e3e7 busybox: mdev: Fix /dev/snd
  • d73defb xf86-video-intel: Make eudev optional
  • 5edc08f sowm: bump to 1.1
  • 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
  • db94c86 kiss: bump to 0.70.0
  • 3dc27c4 kiss-utils: bump to 0.70.0
  • 45f92eb curl: don't link to libpsl
  • 8acef1f libva: bump to 2.6.1
  • 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
  • 8c01495 cmake: bump to 3.16.3
  • 207b4c5 dosfstools: new package at 4.1
  • f3a6a38 mandoc: Fix build with new gnumake
  • a870165 nodejs: bump to 13.7.0
  • ee8f593 glib: bump to 2.63.4
  • 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
  • b690ba2 nss: bump to 3.49.2
  • f2aab2d meson: bump to 0.53.1
  • 86d283c docs: update
  • 65bd6ad libevent: move to extra
  • 72be609 falkon: Added optional open-in-mpv extension