Hutterer: Why libinput doesn't have a lot of config options

Peter Hutterer writes about the cost of configuration options. "You see, whenever you write 'it's just 5 lines of code to make this an option', what I think is 'once the patch is reviewed and applied, I'll spend two days to write test cases and documentation. I'll need to handle any bug reports related to this, and I'm expected to make sure this option works indefinitely. Any addition of another feature may conflict with this option, so I need to make sure the right combination is possible and test cases are written.' So your work ends after writing a 5 line patch, my work as maintainer merely starts."

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