Created attachment 279213 [details] evtest-1.28.ebuild Evtest is a necessary utility for troubleshooting input devices and really should be included in Gentoo rather than forcing user to manually install. It's not even in an overlays AFAICT. I would suggest "dev-util" as the category. The ebuild depends upon libxml2 for the evtest-capture command and upon asciidoc and xmlto for man pages. Previous old bug 127660 was closed prior to evtest command being split out from the Linux Console tools a while ago (now at http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxconsole/) and strangely closed as resolved invalid. This version on Freedesktop is being updated by the Xorg input maintainer.
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I should clarify that evtest is included in games-util/joystick package but evtest is definitely not just for games. See bug 374245 for games-util/joystick upstream update request that will no longer be inclusive of evtest.
evtest-1.29 added today does not fetch (s/tar.bz2/tar.gz/?) also maybe this bug can be closed
